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somewhat different approach from merely sampling the
sensibility of a great play of the critical period.
King Lear is a kind of medieval sermon-exemplum or
inductive reasoning to display the madness and misery of the
new Renaissance life of action. Shakespeare explains minutely
that the very principle of action is the splitting up of social
operations and of the private sense life into specialized
segments. The resulting frenzy to discover a new over-all
interplay of forces ensures a furious activation of all
components and persons affected by the new stress.
Cervantes had a similar awareness, and his Don Quixote is
galvanized by the new form of the book as much as Machiavelli
had been hypnotized by the special segment of experience that
he had chosen to step up to the highest intensity of