Machiavellian Philosophy in King Lear
Machiavelli’s ideas influence some of Shakespeare’s characters in the play, King Lear. To use the critic A. P. Rossiter’s phrase, Shakespeare’s plays are about, “the survival of the slickest.” The characters in King Lear that reflect the Machiavellian philosophy are the two sisters, Goneril and Regan, and the son of Gloucester, Edmund. Machiavelli’s had a very cold appraisal of government and power. He as
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