{"product_id":"augustine-s-confessions-and-shakespeare-s-king-lear-1","title":"Augustine’s Confessions and Shakespeare’s King Lear","description":"\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","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55616881688920,"sku":"9781350500884","price":87.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781350500884_fb29c549-d2c0-4297-ad0c-9731faa226bd.jpg?v=1769278533","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/augustine-s-confessions-and-shakespeare-s-king-lear-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}