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at all levels of social and private life. King Lear is a presentation
of the new strategy of culture and power as it affects the
state, the family, and the individual psyche:
Meantime we shall express our darker purpose.
Give me the map there. Know we have divided
In three our kingdom;
The map was also a novelty in the sixteenth century, age
of Mercator’s projection, and was key to the new vision of
peripheries of power and wealth. Columbus had been a
cartographer before he was a navigator; and the discovery that
it was possible to continue in a straight-line course, as if space
were uniform and continuous, was a major shift in human
awareness in the Renaissance. More important, the map brings
forward at once a principal theme of King Lear , namely the