“Speak what we feel”: Biblical Blessings and Beyond in Shakespeare’s King Lear

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Twice Blest: Exploring Shakespeare and the Hebrew Bible

Yeshiva University Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought

9 episodes

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Welcome to Twice Blest, a podcast exploring Shakespeare and the Hebrew Bible from the Yeshiva University Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought. Hosted by Dr. Shaina Trapedo, Twice Blest brings you conversations with faith leaders, scholars, and writers that bridge the wisdom of Judaic and classical texts so we can live more informed and fulfilling intellectual and spiritual lives on an individual and communal level.

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“Speak what we feel”: Biblical Blessings and Beyond in Shakespeare’s King Lear — With Professor Julia Reinhard Lupton

Twice Blest: Exploring Shakespeare and the Hebrew Bible

37 minutes 5 seconds

4 years ago

“Speak what we feel”: Biblical Blessings and Beyond in Shakespeare’s King Lear — With Professor Julia Reinhard Lupton

What are blessings? Prayers? Protections? A performative act? In this episode, Professor Julia Reinhard Lupton, Shakespeare scholar and co-director of the UCI Shakespeare Center, rethinks the love gambit that opens King Lear as a battle of biblical prooftexts and tracks the presence and purpose of benediction in the play and beyond to reveal a cascade of blessings throughout Shakespeare’s works.

Audio Credits:

King Lear, dir. Richard Eyre (2018)

King Lear, dir.Trevor Nunn (2020)

Macbeth, dir. Trevor Nunn, Royal Shakespeare Company production (1979)

King Lear, Arkangel Shakespeare Unabridged Audiobook (2014)

Mentioned in this episode:

The Bible on the Shakespearean Stage: Cultures of Interpretation in Reformation England edited by Thomas Fulton and Kristen Poole

Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth by A.C. Bradley

Hosted by Straus Center Resident Scholar Dr. Shaina Trapedo

Produced by Uri Westrich and Sam Gelman

Outro by Straus Scholar Ayelet Brown

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