{"product_id":"king-lear-lears-language-beginning-vs-end-of-the-play-von-kati-bach","title":"King Lear: Lear's Language, Beginning vs. End of the Play","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2 (B), Martin Luther University (Anglistics), course: Shakespear's Plays, language: English, abstract: King Lear was first published in 1608 and is one of the numerous tragedies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewritten by William Shakespeare. However, it is not just any of his tragedies, the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etragedy of King Lear ¿stands like a colossus at the centre of Shakespeare¿s\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eachievement as the grandest effort of imagination¿, says Foakes who is the Editor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof the Arden Edition (Foakes 1997, 1). ¿In its social range it encompasses a whole\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esociety, from king to beggar, and invites us to move in our imagination between a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eroyal palace and a hovel on a bare heath¿ (Foakes 1997, 1). Nevertheless,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e¿complications have been kept to a minimum¿ (Brown 2001, 229) by\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShakespeare. Still, this tragedy ¿is as demanding as any of the others ¿ in some\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eways, it is the most epic of them all¿ (Brown 2001, 229).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween all the commotion in the plot, Lear¿s story ¿is the one clear and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eindisputable element¿ (Brown 2001, 229). From the beginning to the end, ¿Lear¿s\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estory is presented in stark and unavoidably physical terms¿ (Brown 2001, 231).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe threefold dignity of a king, an old man, and a father, is\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edishonored by the cruel ingratitude of his unnatural daughters; the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eold king, who out of a foolish tenderness has given away\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eeverything, is driven out into the world a homeless beggar; the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003echildish imbecility to which he was fast advancing changes into the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewildest insanity, and when he is rescued from the destitution to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhich he was abandoned, it is too late. (Bates 1906))\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a way that was new to himself and almost unknown in the theatre\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof his time, Shakespeare constantly drew attention to what his hero\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eundergoes in body as well as in mind, in his senses as well as in his\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethoughts and feelings, achievements, and relations with other\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epeople. (Brown 2001, 231)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this paper I am trying to follow Lear¿s state of mind and thought. The King\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egoes from power to madness and from royalty to peasantry. But how does he\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003earticulate his deep thoughts and feelings through language? How can the reader\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eunderstand his change in mood? The following pages will give some insight on\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethese topics and will help to a better understanding of the character of King Lear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783656281108\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783656281108","offer_id":39446431105117,"sku":"9783656281108","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/0a5bb155-073a-4ca6-bfd3-860621aaaa26.jpg?v=1777959355","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/king-lear-lears-language-beginning-vs-end-of-the-play-von-kati-bach","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}