Lear's Self-DiscoveryUniv of California Press, 2021 M01 8 - 168 pages This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967. |
Contents
Some Renaissance Contexts | 12 |
The Emergence of Lear as Thinker | 44 |
Other Characters on the Rack | 83 |
Who Is It That Can Tell Me Who I Am? | 94 |
VI | 105 |
Is Man No More Than This? | 115 |
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