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Mr. Irving's “Lear.”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

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Shakespeare so clearly held up the mirror to nature that every special student finds his specialty recognized by the great dramatist. We do not for a moment suppose that Shakespeare made a prolonged study of the insane or of the mental defects associated with senility, yet when he came to portray a weak-minded old man his observation in no way misled him, and we have in his Lear one of the most masterly descriptions of a demented king that any literature, whether special or general, can provide.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 39 , Issue 165 , April 1893 , pp. 228 - 231
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1893 

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