We see the culmination of the destroyed safety of the Medieval world in Shakespeare's plays including Hamlet, Macbeth, Richard III, and King Lear. ... In Act IV, Scene 6, we see Lear dressed in wild berries and donning a crown made from weeds -- Lear has begun to see clearly and still believes himself to be a King, but, more realistically, a King of nothing. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate