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King Lear and the Death of the World
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One of the most variable features of the contrast between Quarto and Folio King Lear has to do with speeches to and about elements of the natural world. ‘King Lear and the Death of the World’ interrogates the play’s vitalism: its treatment of natural elements as independent agents with wills and sentiments of their own. In this play, uniquely for Shakespeare, four characters address elements of the natural world directly. Investigation of the play’s intermittent vitalism brings into greater focus its bleakness at the end, which features not merely the deaths of most of the central characters but also, arguably, the death of the world.
Title: King Lear and the Death of the World
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One of the most variable features of the contrast between Quarto and Folio King Lear has to do with speeches to and about elements of the natural world.
‘King Lear and the Death of the World’ interrogates the play’s vitalism: its treatment of natural elements as independent agents with wills and sentiments of their own.
In this play, uniquely for Shakespeare, four characters address elements of the natural world directly.
Investigation of the play’s intermittent vitalism brings into greater focus its bleakness at the end, which features not merely the deaths of most of the central characters but also, arguably, the death of the world.
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