King Lear: The Element Of Disguise
The play King Lear is, first of all, a play about kingship; about a
trustful old king, every inch a king, who in old age brings destruction to
himself, and to certain persons in his own circle, and to his country. It
is a play which tears off the outer coverings. Pious and innocent-seeming
people who are villainous, are revealed in their true nature, and the
similar is disclosed for what it is, as it works destruction. This is done
in a world in which most men are constantly seeking their own advancement,
in a court which flatterers are always lurking, and in which a k ....
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