{"product_id":"9781350500877-augustines-confessions-and-shakespeares-king-lear-power-parenthood-and-presence","title":"Augustine’s Confessions and Shakespeare’s King Lear","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePower, Parenthood, and Presence\u003cbr\u003eAddresses the main characters’ thoughts on women and on God\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaffenroth returns to two of the most quintessentially commanding yet vulnerable protagonists in the Western canon – Augustine, the real life, fifth century bishop of Hippo, known to us mostly through his own telling of his life in \u003ci\u003eConfessions\u003c\/i\u003e; and King Lear, the legendary king of Briton, known to us mostly from Shakespeare’s version of his tragic end. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaving examined problems addressed in both works of love, language, nature, and reason, Paffenroth here picks up more purely relational matters: both protagonists wield (or have wielded) power over others, yet struggle to learn its right application; both raise children, but have deeply problematic relations with their children, their partners, and (in the case of Augustine at least) their parents; neither has an intuitive or unproblematic relationship with a fully present God or gods – Augustine struggles mightily to have such, while Lear cries out to heaven but it is unclear he ever gets a reply. As different as the books and men are, how they relate to women and God shows illuminating and complementary points of comparison.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55391632097654,"sku":"9781350500877","price":24.06,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_35246670.jpg?v=1765519562","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781350500877-augustines-confessions-and-shakespeares-king-lear-power-parenthood-and-presence","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}