An undoing of pattern or a pattern of undoing? Sin, folly and chaos in Shakespeare’s King Lear
The opening of King Lear evokes a series of mathematical operations: Lear seeks a multiplication of love in exchange for the division of the kingdom, but rejects the equals sign given to him by Cordelia in pursuit of the triangular “more than” offered by Goneril and Regan. These are the signs that c...
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Routledge
2021
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