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Abstract: This paper aims to analyze especially the first scene of the first act of
William Shakespeare’s Tragedy King Lear trough the truth-telling discourse point
of view, the Parrhesia, as Michel Foucault defines it. When Cordelia refuses the
flatteries in the first scene, the youngest and the dearest daughter of Lear opens the
doors to an understanding of the problems, which the sovereign cannot comprehend,
further than flattery, there is the dimension of mortality, the bodies of the king
and abdication itself. Her discourse is very simple, although very deep; it incites
the old king to many errors that will cost him too much time to recognize and to
understand. In this path, the aspects of this truth-telling reading of the play points
some lights to a possible intention of his youngest daughter when she unexpectedly
breaks her father’s expectatives. This analysis will have the support of the theories
of the Kantorowicz’s Two Bodies of The King, the philosophical approaches with
the essays of Michel Montaigne and the psychoanalytical view of Freud’s theme
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Este artigo foi redigido em 2009 e traz alguns resultados da pesquisa de Mestrado
sobre Estudos Comparados em Shakespeare com financiamento do CNPq.
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Mestrando em Teoria e História Literária pelo IEL/UNICAMP, sob a orientação da
Profa. Dra. Suzi Frankl Sperber. E-mail para contato: regis.closel@gmail.com
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concerning the “The Three Caskets”. This study is involved in a research about
possible sources and themes to Shakespeare, especially here are discussed the relations
with Montaigne.
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Lear:... Fala.
Cordélia: Nada, meu senhor.
Lear: Nada?
Cordélia: Nada.
Lear: Nada virá do nada. Fala outra vez.
(I.i, 86-90)
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Nesta citação foi adotada a tradução de Bárbara Heliodora (Cf. Shakespeare, 1998)
devido ao seu formato em versos.
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O parrhesiastes não deveria ser obrigado a falar a verdade (Cf. Foucault, 1983, 1-6).
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Cf. Montaigne em I,14; I,19; I,20; II,3; II,6 e II,13.
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Referências bibliográficas
BRADLEY, A. C. Shakespearean Tragedy - Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King
Lear and Macbeth. New York: Macmillan, 2005 [1904].
HONAN, P. Shakespeare uma vida. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2001.
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MONTAIGNE, M. The essays of Montaigne. Done into English by John Florio, anno
1603. Edição e introdução de George Saintsbury, 1892 [1603]. Disponível
em http://www.archive.org/details/essaysofmontaign01montuoft. Acesso
em 29 de maio de 2009.
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