... human beings who are content to stay within the limits of the conventional world and the heroic souls who try to go beyond them. Notes 1 In his Shakespeare Our Contemporary, trans. Boleslaw Taborski (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1966), 130, Jan Kott makes explicit what ... University Press, 1971), 415. For a more recent statement of this position, see Barbara Everett's essay, "King Lear: Loving," in her Young Hamlet: Essays on Shakespeare's Tragedies (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), 59-82. 3 See, for example, Knight, who speaks of "the absurdity of the old King's anger ... extremity...

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