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Discuss Shakespeare's treatment of madness in "King Lear".
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... Discuss Shakespeare's treatment of madness in "King Lear". In "King Lear", Shakespeare uses many different concepts of madness, real, feigned and professional madness. The character of King Lear, himself shows high and low points of genuine insanity. The character Edgar disguises himself as a deranged beggar. The fool displays madness for humour as part of his job as an entertainer. Throughout the play Shakespeare also uses a background of bizarre weather conditions to emphasise the theme of madness. Most of the characters apart from Edmund have a belief in the gods; these beliefs can be seen as absurd to a modern day reader. Gloucester's madness is his inability to understand situations and to see people for what they really are. King Lear's madness starts at the beginning of the play with political insanity when he decides to divide his kingdom between his daughters using a 'love test'. His 'love test' unfolds the
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