リア王：私の読み方 King Lear : Shakespeare's Dark Consolations (My Reading)

Frank, Arthur W.

Oxford University Press（2022/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 164 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780192846723
• DDC分類 822.33

Full Description

A book on the experience of reading Shakespeare's 'dark plays'.

As part of the My Reading series, King Lear is a personal meditation on a great literary work. Arthur Frank brings a career of studying illness experience and suffering to consider how King Lear can aid people whose lives need help. Reading King Lear leads Frank to both an encounter with his own old age and a source of consolation-companionship--in his future. This book does not try to minimize vulnerabilities, but it shows what is fully human, and thus shared, in suffering. The book introduces readers to King Lear, and it invites those who know the play to a new consideration for its ability to affect people's lives.

Contents

Prologue: A Tale of Two Families
Vulnerable Reading
The Unravelling
The Refuge of Second Selves
The Lost, the Mad, and the Image of Horror
Reconciliations
Living With an Unpromised End
How King Lear Helps
Tragic Sharing
Coda: In Place of the Jig