SOURCE: “Accommodation and Synecdoche: Calvin's God in King Lear,” in Shakespeare Studies, Vol. XX, 1988, pp. 147-68.
In the following essay, Keefer describes the means by which God is represented in the human terms of King Lear, observing Lear's actions as “a synecdochic parody of Calvinist predestination and grace.”
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