SOURCE: Bennett, Josephine Waters. “The Storm Within: The Madness of Lear.” Shakespeare Quarterly 13, no. 2 (spring 1962): 137-55.
In the following essay, Bennett interprets Lear's internal struggle with insanity as it shapes and defines his character in King Lear.
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