“Speak what we feel”: Biblical Blessings and Beyond in Shakespeare’s King Lear

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August 11 2021
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Series: Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought

Collections: Twice Blest: Exploring Shakespeare and the Hebrew Bible

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What are blessings? Prayers? Protections? A performative act? In this episode, Professor Julia Reinhard Lupton, Shakespeare scholar and co-director of the UCI Shakespeare Center, rethinks the love gambit that opens King Lear as a battle of biblical prooftexts and tracks the presence and purpose of benediction in the play and beyond to reveal a cascade of blessings throughout Shakespeare’s works.

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