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King Lear Study Guide

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by William Shakespeare
About 294 pages (88,062 words)
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Critical Essay #1

Source: "King Lear," in Northrop Frye on Shakespeare, edited by Robert Sandler, Yale University Press, 1986, pp. 101-21.

[In this informal, almost conversational, essay on King Lear-developed from his lectures to undergraduate students over many years-Frye ranges widely across many aspects of the playas he outlines its tragic Vision. He describes the Elizabethan concept of order or hierarchy in nature and the different levels of existence in King Lear: the supernatural, the human, physical nature, and the demonic world. Frye also discusses the association of the word "nothing" with loss of identity and remarks on the various meanings of the word "fool" in the play. As he takes up each of these thematic issues, he also offers commentary on Lear, Cardella, Goneril and Regan, Edmund, and Edgar.]

The story of Lear is one of a.....

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