Lear's Self-discovery

affliction argue awareness beginning Boaistuau body Brutus chapter character Charron Christian comes Cordelia corrupt course critics depiction disguise doth drama of self-discovery dramatic Edgar Edmund father feel flesh foil to Lear Fool Fool's Gloucester Gloucester's Goneril and Regan Hamlet hath Hugh Latimer human Huntington Library Iago identity important insight intelligence interpretation John Davies Kent kind King Lear Knight knowledge later Lear as thinker Lear learns Lear's mind Lear's self-discovery least madness mainly man's means merely moral Myles Coverdale nature never nosce teipsum Othello passions perhaps philosopher play question reason recognition recognize Renaissance Renaissance treatises Richard Richard II scene seems self-knowledge self-pity sense sexual Shake Shakespeare Quarterly significant Sir John Davies slenderly known soliloquy speech stage storm tell Theodore Spencer things thinking Thomas Becon thought tion Titus Titus Andronicus tough world tragedy true unkind daughters wisdom woman writes