Aug 11 2021 37 mins 9
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.
Audio Credits:
King Lear, dir. Richard Eyre (2018)
King Lear, dir.Trevor Nunn (2020)
Macbeth, dir. Trevor Nunn, Royal Shakespeare Company production (1979)
King Lear, Arkangel Shakespeare Unabridged Audiobook (2014)
Mentioned in this episode:
Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth by A.C. Bradley
Hosted by Straus Center Resident Scholar Dr. Shaina Trapedo
Produced by Uri Westrich and Sam Gelman
Outro by Straus Scholar Ayelet Brown
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