... is so great, that we must be wary of making statements that conflate what I might refer to as the public and the private Lears. 15 See my essays "Shakespeare's The Tempest: The Wise Man As Hero," Shakespeare Quarterly 31 (1980): 64-75 and "Prospero's Republic: The Politics of Shakespeare's The Tempest," in John Alvis and Thomas West, eds., Shakespeare as Political Thinker (Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 1981), 239-55. For ... ). 17 On this point, see Lowenthal, "King Lear," 413. 18 This outcome fulfills Albany's ominous prediction at 4.2.49-50. For the self-destructive character ...

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