King Lear Questions on Act 2, Scene 3

King Lear

In Edgar's soliloquy in William Shakespeare's King Lear, various rhetorical devices enhance the dramatic impact. Alliteration, such as "happy hollow," and personification, like "persecutions of the...

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King Lear

Edgar's disguise as Poor Tom in "King Lear" involves three main aspects: he feigns insanity by claiming he escaped from Bedlam, an asylum; he presents himself as a beggar, clad only in an old...

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