"Nietzsche's Tragic Performance: The Still-Living Mother and the Dionysian in Ecce Homo" https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbc2101/ Author: Shepherd, Melanie. Type: Journal Article Year: 2013 Publication Information: Philosophy and Literature 37, no. 1 (2013): 20–35. Annotation: Draws on Stanley Cavell's understanding that King Lear presents the existential problem of a life without ground (q.v.). Compares Lear's groundless life to Nietzsche's "tragic performance" in Ecce Homo. Language: English Cross-References: Cavell, Disowning Knowledge in Six Plays of Shakespeare Persons: Nietzsche, Friedrich; Cavell, Stanley Tags: King Lear, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism WSB Update: Summer 2015 WSB Record Number: bbbc2101