Title: The king & the adultress
First published: 1998
Description: The King and the Adulteress brings together two essays that propose radically revisionary readings of two of the most important literary works in the Western canon, Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Shakespeare's King Lear.

In offering a new understanding of a deeply sadomasochistic relationship and of an authoritarian pathology, psychoanalyst Roberto Speziale-Bagliacca combines psychoanalysis with literary studies to challenge the conventional judgments of readers and the stereotyped interpretations of literary critics to these masterpieces.

Approaching the characters in Bovary and Lear from both an analytic and a critical viewpoint, Speziale-Bagliacca reinterprets many issues and events that involve archetypal figures of modern literary mythology.
Subjects: Lear, King (Legendary character), in literature, Psychoanalysis and literature, In literature, Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, king lear, Flaubert, gustave, 1821-1880
People: William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
LC classification: PQ2246.M3 S66 1998