Title: Lear's self-discovery
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.
Subjects: Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, king lear
People: William Shakespeare (1564-1616)