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William R. Elton. ‘King Lear and the Gods. San Marino, California: The Huntington Library, 1966. xii + 369 pp. $8.50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

G. I. Duthie
G. I. Duthie*
Affiliation:
Aberdeen, Scotland
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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1967 , pp. 377 - 380
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1967

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References

1 In the volume Shakespeare: 1564-1964, ed. by Edward A. Bloom (Providence, R.I.: Brown University Press).

2 MLR, XLV (1950), 142.

3 The Essential Shakespeare (1932), p. 126.

4 E.g., as Dr. Elton notes, while Lear moves towards an Epicurean position with regard to the gods, Gloucester eventually arrives at a Stoic position, these positions being philosophically antithetical.