Speech Strategy in King Lear (on the Trends of Development in Cultural Reflection)
The final lines, especially the first two of the four rhymed lines, in King Lear have often evoked discussion and prompted the following questions: why are they attributed to different characters in the quarto and folio editions of the play and, no matter who utters them, how to interpret them? Some...
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| description | The final lines, especially the first two of the four rhymed lines, in King Lear have often evoked discussion and prompted the following questions: why are they attributed to different characters in the quarto and folio editions of the play and, no matter who utters them, how to interpret them? Sometimes, though not often, they were related to the initial situation of the tragedy and Cordelia’s refusal to address the words of love to her father. In the present article, Cordelia’s silence and the meaning of the final words are contextualized with the group of later sonnets (‘sonnets of 1603’) within the general movement of Shakespeare’s speech strategy towards ‘inwardness’ (Stephen Greenblatt). The key word in this group of sonnets — mind — is loaded with new significance and circulates from sonnet to sonnet in a regular use. The deepening reflection is an important manifestation of the epochmaking turn in cultural history, and Shakespeare was among the first to problematize it in his sonnets and tragedies. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-a84abb87cae645daa4493a2b7e06ba182025-08-20T03:38:54ZengRussian Academy of Sciences, A.M. Gorky Institute of World LiteratureStudia Litterarum2500-42472541-85642019-06-014210812710.22455/2500-4247-2019-4-2-108-127Speech Strategy in King Lear (on the Trends of Development in Cultural Reflection)Igor O. Shaуtanov0Russian State University for the HumanitiesThe final lines, especially the first two of the four rhymed lines, in King Lear have often evoked discussion and prompted the following questions: why are they attributed to different characters in the quarto and folio editions of the play and, no matter who utters them, how to interpret them? Sometimes, though not often, they were related to the initial situation of the tragedy and Cordelia’s refusal to address the words of love to her father. In the present article, Cordelia’s silence and the meaning of the final words are contextualized with the group of later sonnets (‘sonnets of 1603’) within the general movement of Shakespeare’s speech strategy towards ‘inwardness’ (Stephen Greenblatt). The key word in this group of sonnets — mind — is loaded with new significance and circulates from sonnet to sonnet in a regular use. The deepening reflection is an important manifestation of the epochmaking turn in cultural history, and Shakespeare was among the first to problematize it in his sonnets and tragedies.http://studlit.ru/images/2019-4-2/Shaytanov.pdfKing Learfolioquartospeech strategy‘sonnets of 1603’ought tomindinwardnessreflectionL.E. PinskyS.S. Averintsev |
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| topic | King Lear folio quarto speech strategy ‘sonnets of 1603’ ought to mind inwardness reflection L.E. Pinsky S.S. Averintsev |
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