Sovereign Shame: A Study of King LearBucknell University Press, 1984 - 210 pages This study of King Lear emphasizes the fact that Cordelia Kent, and the Fool create a loving community from which Lear persistently flees, and seeks to explain his bizarre behavior not, as is sometimes done, by attributing unconscious incestuous desires to him, but by demonstrating that Lear's profound and tyrannizing shame originates in his metaphysical dread of personal worthlessness and a deep sense of being unworthy of love. |
Contents
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The Pastoral Norm | 58 |
The Player King | 118 |
The Prince of Darkness is a Gentleman | 147 |
Notes | 176 |
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Page 26 - And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never!