... to change his exterior disguising himself as Caius: "If but as well I other accents borrow That can my speach defuse, my good intent/ May carry through itself to that full issue..." (1.4.1-3). A "progress narrative" underlies the interpretation of other characters' motives for disguising themselves in the Shakespearean corpus. In As You Like It Rosalind and Celia, like Kent in King Lear, are ... liable to banishment by their patron, Duke Frederick. Like Edgar of King Lear Whose face he "grime[s] with Filt" (2.3.9), Celia "with a kind of umber smirch[es] [her] face" (1.3.110). Rosalind de...

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... amuse the lords and ladies of the court with his wit. He was often on quite friendly terms with the family, as expressed in Shakespeare's own As You Like It, where Celia speaks of her foolHe?ll go along o?er the wide world with me?. So, it is clear that the fool does not follow Lear simply for his wages. Indeed, throughout the play, a close relationship between ... , sirrah, the whip!?...?Truth's a dog must to kennel.? At first, Lear reacts with some resentment to this truth. However, as it is offered not as a rival to his own ideas, but as the disinterested observation of a mind that gr...

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