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Manifestations of madness in King Lear

Anoushka Sinha New York, United States   King Lear and the Fool in the Storm William Dyce (1806-1864) National Galleries of Scotland In his satirical masterpiece The Praise of Folly, the influential Dutch humanist Erasmus of Rotterdam attributes a Janus-like quality to madness, which he describes as two divergent manifestations: “one that which the Furies […]