{"title":"Christian and Stoic Patience in King Lear","authors":"Deni Kasa","doi":"10.1353/sel.2022.0006","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article explores how King Lear’s representation of suffering reveals the limits of Christian and Stoic approaches to suffering. Patience, a concept that was etymologically and conceptually related to suffering, is the meeting point between Christianity and the Stoic tradition in King Lear. The play ultimately reveals that both Christian and Stoic varieties of patience are limited in their capacity to console, and that compassion is a more reliable ethical alternative. By treating patience as the vehicle of King Lear’s skepticism, this article situates the play’s engagement with suffering in terms of the broader history of Christianity’s assimilation of classical concepts.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2022.0006","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This article explores how King Lear’s representation of suffering reveals the limits of Christian and Stoic approaches to suffering. Patience, a concept that was etymologically and conceptually related to suffering, is the meeting point between Christianity and the Stoic tradition in King Lear. The play ultimately reveals that both Christian and Stoic varieties of patience are limited in their capacity to console, and that compassion is a more reliable ethical alternative. By treating patience as the vehicle of King Lear’s skepticism, this article situates the play’s engagement with suffering in terms of the broader history of Christianity’s assimilation of classical concepts.
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SEL focuses on four fields of British literature in rotating, quarterly issues: English Renaissance, Tudor and Stuart Drama, Restoration and Eighteenth Century, and Nineteenth Century. The editors select learned, readable papers that contribute significantly to the understanding of British literature from 1500 to 1900. SEL is well known for thecommissioned omnibus review of recent studies in the field that is included in each issue. In a single volume, readers might find an argument for attributing a previously unknown work to Shakespeare or de-attributing a famous work from Milton, a study ofthe connections between class and genre in the Restoration Theater.
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