On King Lear, The Confessions, and Human Experience and Nature

Augustine''s Confessions and Shakespeare''s King Lear are two of the most influential and enduring works of the Western canon or world literature. But what does Stratford-upon-Avon have to do with Hippo, or the ascetical heretic-fighting polemicist with the author of some of the world''s most beautiful love poetry? To answer these questions, Kim Paffenroth analyses the similarities and differences...