Undermining the Elect Nation: King Lear and the Hebrew Patriarchs at the Court of James I

By Patrick Timmis

This article examines King Lear’s creative redeployment of the Old Testament stories of the patriarchs, especially the narrative of Jacob and Esau in the book of Genesis. After contextualizing the reliance of the “Gloucester subplot” on this…

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Version 1.0 - published on 19 Apr 2025

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