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Article: King Lear and the Naked Truth: Rethinking the Language of Religion and Resistance.(Review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 22, 2000
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Judy Kronenfeld. King Lear and the Naked Truth: Rethinking the Language of Religion and Resistance.
Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1998. xiv + 383 pp. $64.95 (cl); $21.95 (pbk).
ISBN: 0-8223-2027-4 (cl); 0-8223-2038-X (pbk).
This study has several objectives: at its simplest it "investigates the images and metaphors of nakedness and clothing (and the material realities to which they relate) in Renaissance religious, political, and literary culture, and applies the resulting understanding of that metaphor field to King Lear" (1). Further, in analysing such a semantic field, it becomes a study in historical semiotics which generates a ...