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- Title
'THIS SAME LEARNED THEBAN': KING LEAR, III.iv.161.
- Authors
Viswanathan, S.
- Abstract
The article focuses on King Lear's deictic reference to Edgar in the guise of Mad Tom, which is one of the few Shakespearian phrases, which have at once defied explication and, curiously, failed to provoke scholarly comment. In all likelihood, Shakespeare alludes in the phrase to the ancient philosopher Cebes of Thebes whose Tabula Vitae or Cebetis Tabula was then a commonly set text read in Latin translation if not in the original Greek, and a text often illustrated with a woodcut of a Greek mural painting depicting allegorically the education and progress of man through the stages of life.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; LEAR, King of England (Legendary character); SHAKESPEARE, William, 1564-1616; EDUCATION; MURAL art; ANCIENT philosophers; BRITISH folklore
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 1986, Vol 33, Issue 3, p362
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article