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world of jobs. This is a process of stripping and denudation
which does not occur instantly except in artistic vision. But
Shakespeare saw that it had happened in his time. He was not
talking about the future. However, the older world of roles had
lingered on as a ghost just as after a century of electricity the
West still feels the presence of the older values of literacy and
privacy and separateness.
Kent, Edgar, and Cordelia are “out of phase” in the
language of W. B. Yeats. They are “feudal” in their total loyalty
which they consider merely natural to their roles . In role they
exercise no delegated authority or powers. They are
autonomous centres. As Georges Poulet in his Studies in
Human Time points out (p. 7): “For the man of the Middle Ages,
then, there was not one duration only. There were durations ,
ranked one above another, and not only in the universality of