Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)


16 Apr 2007

Kennedy, "Shakespare's King Lear"

Kennedy, Joy. "Shakespeare's King Lear." Explicator 60:2 (2002): 60-62.

(Finding this article in the library is part of the assignment.)

Trackbacks
MT QuickPost | Check Latest Trackbacks
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/mt/mt-tb.cgi/7902

Pagan Christianity
Excerpt: Kennedy, "Shakespare's King Lear" -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
Weblog: HallieGeary
Tracked: April 11, 2007 4:29 PM
Demented Christlike Figure
Excerpt: "Again, to see the Lear-as-Green-Man possibility, consider the irony of this mad diatribe as it is coupled with Lear wearing the crown of vegetation."Kennedy, "Shakespare's King Lear" -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
Weblog: MacKenzieHarbison
Tracked: April 12, 2007 4:57 PM
That Crazy Green Man!
Excerpt: Kennedy, "Shakespare's King Lear" -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Perhaps the Elizabethan audience would have construed Lear's insanity as a religious regression."...
Weblog: MatthewHenderson
Tracked: April 13, 2007 9:02 PM
Watch Out for Killer Plants!
Excerpt: Kennedy, "Shakespare's King Lear" -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "All the plants Cordelia lists are noxious, bitter tasting, or contain skin irritants (Dyer 215; Butler 403-5). The interesting textual note here, with concern to the ...
Weblog: LorinSchumacher
Tracked: April 14, 2007 12:47 AM
Green Man
Excerpt: Kennedy, "Shakespare's King Lear" -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "The Green Man, his head crowned with leaves, weeds, or flowers, is one of the most incontestably pre-Christian images of British history.' I really liked this article...
Weblog: JennaMiller
Tracked: April 14, 2007 3:55 PM
Pagan elements? Who knew?
Excerpt: Kennedy, "Shakespare's King Lear" -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
Weblog: CheraPupi
Tracked: April 15, 2007 10:04 AM
Not Much
Excerpt: the cuckoo flowers suggest madness...are all noxious, bitter tasting, or contain skin irritants. Perhaps the Elizabethan audience would have constructed Lear's insanity as a religious regrestion Kennedy, "Shakespare's King Lear" -- Jerz: EL15...
Weblog: CorinneLauer
Tracked: April 15, 2007 1:50 PM
green man!?
Excerpt: Kennedy, "Shakespare's King Lear" -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
Weblog: KaylaCappadocia
Tracked: April 15, 2007 2:51 PM
The Jolly Green Giant
Excerpt: Kennedy, "Shakespare's King Lear" -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "The Green Man, his head crowned with leaves, weeds, or flowers, is one of the most incontestably pre-Christian images in British history." After reading this article,...
Weblog: BethanyMerryman
Tracked: April 15, 2007 3:51 PM
Salvation
Excerpt: The pre-Christian setting of the play presents the perfect background for an allusion to the ancient god; the Green Man lends a cohesive thread to the depiction of a wild world barren of God's saving grace. And yet, for those...
Weblog: JenniferPrex
Tracked: April 15, 2007 4:16 PM
Paganism in Lear
Excerpt: Kennedy, "Shakespare's King Lear" -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "The pre-Christian setting of the play presents the perfect background for an allusion to an ancient god." It does make sense. Seeing as it is a pagan setting and...
Weblog: JohnFish
Tracked: April 15, 2007 5:20 PM
Green Man?
Excerpt: Kennedy, "Shakespare's King Lear" -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) If Lear is an image of the Green Man in act 4, both sides of the pagan-versus-Christian debate are strengthened. The pre-Christian setting of the play presents the per...
Weblog: MargaretJones
Tracked: April 15, 2007 5:29 PM
Religion and Literature!
Excerpt: Kennedy, "Shakespare's King Lear" -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Scholars have noted Cordelia's Christlike attributes, seen Lear as Job, found attributes of Christiian Stoicism, and have also read a morality play."...
Weblog: DerekTickle
Tracked: April 15, 2007 5:42 PM
Reflection Paper - "A Connection with Religion"
Excerpt: Kennedy, "Shakespare's King Lear" -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) Reflection paper for Kennedy, "Shakespeare's King Lear"...
Weblog: DerekTickle
Tracked: April 15, 2007 6:14 PM
Reflection on Two Articles
Excerpt: Kennedy, "Shakespare's King Lear" -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) I felt that the articles by Joy Kennedy and William Zander were thought provoking. I liked how Zander linked the end of the play with the death of King...
Weblog: JennaMiller
Tracked: April 15, 2007 8:10 PM
Shakespeare and Christianity
Excerpt: Kennedy, "Shakespare's King Lear" -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
Weblog: ShaylaSorrells
Tracked: April 15, 2007 11:17 PM
Dat dude! Da Green Man!
Excerpt: Kennedy, "Shakespare's King Lear" -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Darnel prevents corn from growing; hemlock is poisonous; and the cuckoo-flowers suggest madness. All of the plants Cordelia lists are noxious, bitter tasting, or cont...
Weblog: CoreyStruss
Tracked: April 16, 2007 12:18 AM
Harvest Five Grain
Excerpt: "One of the most memorable figures of Shakespeare's tragedies is King Lear, wandering madly through the raging tempest. The debate over interpretations of the play is well known: pagan versus Christian."...
Weblog: Stuff That I Write About Things
Tracked: April 16, 2007 10:49 AM
History Repeats Itself
Excerpt: Kennedy, "Shakespare's King Lear" -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "In the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth century depictions of the Green Man, the relationship between human and vegetative is often suggested as hostile-'sometim...
Weblog: BethanyBouchard
Tracked: April 16, 2007 4:33 PM
Green Man and Shakespeare
Excerpt: Kennedy, "Shakespare's King Lear" -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) " He was a symbol of fertility, copulation, and re-birth; he represented the endless cycle of nature, including mortality. " I think that it was a great job done...
Weblog: JaraWhite
Tracked: April 17, 2007 8:25 PM
Comments
Post a comment









Remember personal info?






January
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
  1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31      
February
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
        1 02 3
4 05 6 07 8 09 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28      
March
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
        1 02 3
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30 31
April
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 02 3 04 5 06 7
8 09 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30          
May
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
    1 02 3 04 5
6 07 08 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31