Rocco Coronato, University of Padua, "Breaking the circle. King Lear and Indeterminacy"


Prof. Coronato's lecture fiocuses on the links between Renaissance medical texts concerning melancholy and the texture of metaphors in W. Shakespeare's King Lear. According to Prof. Coronato, King Lear drwas upon and at the same time interrogates the physilogical mechanisms of passions, and in particular the cure for melancholy.

17 aprile



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