“Strange Things Toward” (3.3.18-19): King Lear, or the Broken Perspective

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Pierre Iselin, « “Strange Things Toward” (3.3.18-19): King Lear, or the Broken Perspective », Études anglaises, ID : 10670/1.8b3dfd...

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The question of the grotesque in King Lear already has a long critical history, and the notion has received diverging, even contradictory, definitions. Shakespeare’s paradoxical play, which is characterized by a deep distrust of generic classification, displays a pageant of “fantastical pictures,” verbal and scenic images of inversion, distortion, dismemberment, and hybridity, which elude univocal interpretation. Operating as a sparagmos of fixed perspective, the grotesque is ubiquitous.

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