Lear's self-discovery
By: by Paul A. Jorgensen.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1967
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
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.