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“The Lord That Counseled Thee to Give Away thy Land”: The Wardship Controversy in the First Quarto Version of King Lear
(2019)
This thesis argues that the 1608 First Quarto (Q) version of William Shakespeare’s tragedy King Lear responds to then-ongoing popular agitation in England against the institution of wardship. Q implicitly affirms routinely-made ...