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Biblical Shakespeare: King Lear as Job on the Hebrew Stage

New theatre quarterly, 2015-11, Vol.31 (4), p.359-371 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 ;ISSN: 0266-464X ;ISSN: 1474-0613 ;EISSN: 1474-0613 ;DOI: 10.1017/S0266464X15000664

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Title:
Biblical Shakespeare: King Lear as Job on the Hebrew Stage
Author: Lipshitz, Yair
Subjects: 1500-1599 ; Bible ; Biblical Allusion ; Biblical drama ; Cultural identity ; Drama ; English Literature ; Hebrew language ; Hebrew language (Modern) ; Hebrew Theatre ; Historical text analysis ; Intertextuality ; Jewish theater ; Job (Biblical Character) ; Job (figure) ; King Lear ; Language culture relationship ; Lear, King ; National identity ; Politics ; Productions ; Separate Works ; Shakespeare, William ; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) ; Shakespearean tragedies ; Sixteenth Century ; Theater ; Theater history ; theatrical production ; Tongue ; tragedy ; William Shakespeare ; Zionism
Is Part Of: New theatre quarterly, 2015-11, Vol.31 (4), p.359-371
Description: Comparisons between King Lear and the biblical Book of Job have become commonplace in scholarship. This paper traces the impact of the Lear–Job connection on the staging and reception of Shakespeare’s play in Hebrew theatre. Due to this connection, King Lear was put within the orbit of a central cultural endeavour for Zionism: the re-appropriation of the Hebrew Bible for the formation of a new national identity. In the mid-twentieth century, the play appealed to directors who searched for Hebrew ‘biblical’ theatre, and a web of intertextual allusions in the press tied Shakespeare’s tragedy to the Book of Job and to rabbinic interpretations of it. However, the equivocal position held by Job within the Zionist imagination undermined the place of King Lear as well. Ultimately, the two were intertwined in the politics of their reception in Hebrew theatre. Yair Lipshitz is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Theatre Arts in Tel Aviv University. In his research, he explores the various intersections between theatre, performance, and Jewish religious traditions. He is the author of two books in Hebrew: The Holy Tongue, Comedy’s Version (Bar Ilan University Press, 2010) and Embodied Tradition: Theatrical Performances of Jewish Texts (forthcoming).
Publisher: Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0266-464X
ISSN: 1474-0613
EISSN: 1474-0613
DOI: 10.1017/S0266464X15000664
Source: ProQuest Central

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Biblical Shakespeare: King Lear as Job on the Hebrew Stage

Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 ;ISSN: 0266-464X ;ISSN: 1474-0613 ;EISSN: 1474-0613 ;DOI: 10.1017/S0266464X15000664

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