History & The Arts
English monsters
...change – change that brought prosperity to some but suffering to others. The dog was an emblem of what was wrong with things, as it is in King Lear when Lear is brought face to face with the ‘Poor naked wretches . . .’, those subjects he has ‘. . . ta'en / Too little care of . . .’. As unique as Shakespeare’s presentation of his theme is, as a dramatist he...