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TY  - JOUR
VL  - 50
T2  - Shakespeare Studies
SP  - 73-81
ID  - bbbl2504
T1  - "King Lear and the 'fair and warlike' Heirs of Whiteness" 
AU  - Wagner, Andrew Clark
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2026
KW  - race
LA  - English
AB  - Ascribes racial dimensions to Edgar’s assuming different identity of Poor Tom in King Lear. Notes that his alternations by griming his face with “filth” and tying his hair in “knots” amounts to blackface. Argues Edgar’s disguise “materializes a newly racialized figure in Poor Tom,” whose existence as “near to beast” implies notion of race that depends on political hierarchies rather than biological classification.
ER  -