Lear's self-discovery
An edition of Lear's self-discovery (1967)
By Paul A. Jorgensen
Publish Date
2021
Publisher
University of California Press
Language
eng
Pages
154
Description:
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.