King Lear and the Gods

Aeschylus Albany Albany's analogous Arcadia atheist Atheist's Tragedie attitude Bastard beast belief blind Busson Calvin Cambridge characters Christian cites contrast Cordelia Cornwall cosmic daughters death declares deities Deus absconditus Dieu divine Don Juan dramatic Duchess of Malfi earth echoed Edgar Edmund Elizabethan English Epicurean Epicures Erasmus evil ex nihilo faith father fear folly Fool Fool's fortune Gabriel Harvey Gloucester Gloucester's gods Goneril Harsnet hath heathen heavenly heavens human ironically irony IV.vi James John justice Kent Kent's King Lear Lear's Leir libertine Loeb Classical Lib Lucian Lucretius Macbeth man's Montaigne mystery Nashe naturalistic nature Oxford pagan play prisca theologia Prometheus protagonists providence reference Regan regarding religion religious Renaissance scene seems Seneca sense Shakespeare Sidney's sigs skeptical Stoic Stoicism suggests superstitious thee things Thomas thou thunder Tilley tion topos traditional tragedy translation Treatise unto V.iii villains wheel William