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TY  - JOUR
VL  - 75
IS  - 3
T2  - Shakespeare Quarterly
SP  - 202-228
ID  - bbbo344
T1  - "Forked Animals: King Lear's Cornuted Anthropology"
AU  - Lewis, Alex
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2026
DO  - 10.1093/sq/quae029
LA  - English
AB  - Argues that Lear's "forked animal" is a reference to cuckoldry that is not comic but tragic. Suggests that Shakespeare's "forked animal" defines "potentially all mankind" and presents a "cuckolded ... anthropology" tainted by "bad particulars such as patriarchy, speciesism, and class."
ER  -