Author: William F. ZakPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838750568
Category : Lear, King (Legendary character), in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This study of King Lear emphasizes the fact that Cordelia Kent, and the Fool create a loving community from which Lear persistently flees, and seeks to explain his bizarre behavior not, as is sometimes done, by attributing unconscious incestuous desires to him, but by demonstrating that Lear's profound and tyrannizing shame originates in his metaphysical dread of personal worthlessness and a deep sense of being unworthy of love.