No. 50 (2020)
Articles

Parrhesía of Fools: Truth, Madness and Pain Therapeutics in King Lear

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  • Cecilia Mc Donnell
Cecilia Mc Donnell
Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina
Bio
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36446/be.2020.50.77

Published 2020-05-22

Keywords

  • Comedy,
  • Tragedy,
  • Reason,
  • Fool,
  • Truth

How to Cite

Mc Donnell, C. (2020). Parrhesía of Fools: Truth, Madness and Pain Therapeutics in King Lear. Bulletin of Aesthetics, (50), 31–56. https://doi.org/10.36446/be.2020.50.77

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Abstract

This article aims to investigate the power of the comic as a subversive and therapeutic element that finds its power in the parrhesia. With this in mind, the research will focus on the figure of fools as agents capable of questioning all monological and stratified order, from an authentic, delatory and eccentric discourse. It will be considered, in particular, the role of the fool in William Shakespeare’s King Lear, as a paradigmatic case of the issue that concern us.

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