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Shakespeare's King Lear and the Middle Ages
DVD Video
ISBN: 9780823283224
Published: 01 July 2000
$100.00
Fordham University Press
The film holds, "as t'were, the mirror" up to the Middle Ages, for the medieval image of the world survived into the Elizabethan Age. The king-father symbolizing the authority of the past, primogeniture, astrology, and the dowry are all representative of the medieval culture as reflected in Shakespeare's King Lear.
31 minutes, color, sound
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