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King Lear
The Tragedy
A Note on Elizabethan World Order:
The Elizabethans believed in a world order or a natural order in which everything, very simply, had its place in the world and in nature. In this world order everything which existed had a superior and an inferior in a hierarchical arrangement. Men were superior to the animals and the plants, and the king would have been the most supreme of all men, sitting at the top of the hierarchy.
In King Lear, the king held his divinely appointed place in the order of things for over eighty years, but when he abdicated before his natural time to do so, he upset the order of the natural world.
Approximate Word count = 518 Approximate Pages = 2.1 (250 words per page double spaced)
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