Peter J. Leithart on Shakespeare's King Lear, and Joseph Pearce's interpretation in The Quest for Shakespeare: The Bard of Avon and the Church of Rome.
"[Pearce] does underscore something patently obvious: King Lear is a political play, a drama of kingship. In Lear as in his English history plays, Shakespeare explores what happens when a world loses the political rituals that once ordered it."
See Shakespeare, Great Books of the Western World (first edition, 52 Vol., 1952) volumes 26-27, (second edition, 60 Vol., 1990) volumes 24-25.
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