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Lear's self-discovery

I am attempting a rather full, and I hope fresh, study of Lear's self-discovery, its intellectual meaning, and its dramatic expression. I shall try to show, in small part, what self-knowledge meant to Shakespeare's contemporaries and, most important, how he struck out on his own, and with insights well beyond his time, to create perhaps the greatest drama of self-discovery in all literature. - Introduction
Print Book, English, 1967
University of California Press, Berkeley, 1967
viii, 154 pages ; 23 cm
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Introduction
Some Renaissance contexts
The emergence of Lear as thinker
Other characters on the rack of this tough world
Who is it that can tell me who I am?
Is man no more than this?