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CONTENTS

PREFATORY NOTE PAGE vii
INTRODUCTION ix

I. Sources and Date ix
II. The King xiv
III. Cordelia xx
IV. Kent xxvi
V. The Fool xxviii
VI. Lear's Suffering xxxiii

VII. The Sub-Plot xxxviii
VIII. 'Nature' xliii
IX. Man's Double Nature xlvii
X. The Play's 'Pessimism' xlviii
XL D. G. James' View of the Play lii
THE STAGE-HISTORY Ivi
TO THE READER Ixix
KING LEAR I
THE COPY FOR KING LEAR, 1608 AND 1623 122

NOTES 140
GLOSSARY 277