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Critical Literary Studies
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Volume Volume 1 (2018-2019)
Issue No. 2, Spring and Summer (2019)
Issue No. 1, Autumn and Winter (2018-2019)
Mahmoudi-Tazehkand, F. (2019). Language Kingdom in Shakespeare's King Lear and Edward Bond's Lear. Critical Literary Studies, 1(No. 2, Spring and Summer (2019)), 185-205.
Fatemeh Mahmoudi-Tazehkand. "Language Kingdom in Shakespeare's King Lear and Edward Bond's Lear". Critical Literary Studies, 1, No. 2, Spring and Summer (2019), 2019, 185-205.
Mahmoudi-Tazehkand, F. (2019). 'Language Kingdom in Shakespeare's King Lear and Edward Bond's Lear', Critical Literary Studies, 1(No. 2, Spring and Summer (2019)), pp. 185-205.
Mahmoudi-Tazehkand, F. Language Kingdom in Shakespeare's King Lear and Edward Bond's Lear. Critical Literary Studies, 2019; 1(No. 2, Spring and Summer (2019)): 185-205.

Language Kingdom in Shakespeare's King Lear and Edward Bond's Lear

Article 11, Volume 1, No. 2, Spring and Summer (2019), September 2019, Page 185-205  XML PDF (774 K)
Document Type: Original Article
Author
Fatemeh Mahmoudi-Tazehkand orcid
Islamic Azad University. Dehloran Branch
Receive Date: 23 June 2019,  Revise Date: 19 July 2019,  Accept Date: 14 September 2019 
Abstract
This paper aims to investigate the role of language as a form of political and social control, and a vehicle for power and domination in Shakespeare’s King Lear and Edward Bond’s Lear on parallel bases. Foucault’s famous statement which refers to power as present “everywhere, not because it embraces everything but because it comes from everywhere” clearly points to the always already presence of power. The issue of power has occupied a central position within his works. In fact, language can reflect truth as false and vice versa to sustain dominant group’s desires. Language can both reflect and affect our perception of the world indeed. In fact, King Lear and Lear are both stages for language game. The paper thus aims to focus on the way language plays a key role in King Lear and Lear as a vehicle for power and how language makes you powerful or how it throws you away to be a margin. The result shows that there is a dual relation between language and power, so that the voice of king is doomed to silence through the function of characters’ powerful language usage. In both plays, King is in the margin and language rules powerfully on socio-political relations. This paper has benefited from library documents and sources by use of a descriptive-analytical method.
Keywords
language; Power; Power Relations; Foucault; King Lear; Lear
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