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  1. Once a Villain Always a Villain: Edmund's "Reformation" in King Lear, 5.3.241-2
    Autor*in: Sadowski, Piotr
    Erschienen: 2015
    Verlag:  SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V., Mannheim

    Abstract: The article examines possible motives behind the alleged change of heart shown by Edmund at the end of King Lear when, defeated by his brother Edgar, he decides to revoke his former order to execute Lear and Cordelia.  Edmund’s decision has... mehr

     

    Abstract: The article examines possible motives behind the alleged change of heart shown by Edmund at the end of King Lear when, defeated by his brother Edgar, he decides to revoke his former order to execute Lear and Cordelia.  Edmund’s decision has been almost unanimously interpreted by critics as a sign of genuine remorse and repentance in the face of death.  However, I argue that far from denoting any moral reformation, Edmund’s delayed decision to call off the execution is coldly calculated in self-interest, both to play for time and to mollify his captors, Albany and Edgar.  Interpreting Edmund’s show of pity as feigned rather than genuine helps preserve both the dramatic consistency of the scene, and the psychological unity of Shakespeare’s stage villain

     
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    Format: Online
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    DDC Klassifikation: Literatur und Rhetorik (800)
    Weitere Schlagworte: Edmund; King Lear; Shakespeare; bastardy; character analysis; tragedy
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    In: Studies in Arts and Humanities ; 1 (2015) 1 ; 5-13
  2. A Book I Value
    Selected Marginalia
    Autor*in: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
    Erschienen: [2003]; ©2003
    Verlag:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ ; Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin

    Coleridge is such a celebrity that many who have never read "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" have a fair idea who he was, and yet the common impression of him is not flattering. He is typically seen as a youthful genius transformed by drugs and... mehr

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    Coleridge is such a celebrity that many who have never read "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" have a fair idea who he was, and yet the common impression of him is not flattering. He is typically seen as a youthful genius transformed by drugs and philosophy into a tedious sage. It is time for a change of image. A Book I Value offers a one-volume sampling of Coleridge's encyclopedic marginalia, revealing a figure more complex but also more humanly attractive--clever, curious, playful, intense--than the one we are used to.This book makes a convenient introduction to Coleridge's life, the intellectual issues and contemporary concerns that held his attention, and the workings of his mind. The marginalia represent an unintimidating sort of writing that Coleridge famously excelled at (often in books borrowed from friends). "A book, I value," he wrote, "I reason & quarrel with as with myself when I am reasoning."Unlike the complete Marginalia in six volumes arranged alphabetically by author, this representative selection is chronological and footnote-free, with a contextualizing introduction and brief headnotes that outline Coleridge's circumstances year by year and provide essential historical information. Our own cultural taboo against writing in books is slackening in light of new interest in the history of the book. It will be weakened further by the extraordinary and now accessible example of Coleridge, who was a remarkably shrewd but at the same time a remarkably charitable reader.

     
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