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Lear's fool: friend, critic and florid presence.

Medium Periodical Article
Medium - part of - (Periodical Copy) (Date) Dec2019 (Volume) 86
Medium (Periodical) E Magazine: the A-level English magazine.
Classif 820 EMA
Subject English literature
Page 16 - 18
Authors Edwards, Jonathan
Contents

Speaker of nonsense or truth, darkly bleak or wittily comical, this Fool plays a role in developing the themes and the drama of the play. The author explores the complexity of this important character.

Keywords
Elizabethan     Elizabethan drama     Elizabethan plays     King Lear     William Shakespeare