A Crack in the Shell: Reading a Few Lines from King Lear
Journal Title: Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies - Year 2016, Vol 25, Issue 3
Abstract
The article takes up the theme of Agamben’s violence without a form of justice and reads Shakespeare’s tragedy as spanned between Cordelia’s “nothing” at the start of the play and Lear’s “never” at its end. It also approaches a question of the relationship between, in Rousseau’s word, “l’homme naturel” and “citoyen.” Lear’s push towards a position of being “unaccommodated” suggests a move away from the organization of life previously holding its rule over men towards a marginal, peripheral zone with uncertain rules where man has to risk his own decisions rather than merely follow the custom
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Tadeusz Sławek
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