"Making Use of Nothing: The Sovereignties of King Lear" https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbc705/ Author: Sheerin, Brian. Type: Journal Article Year: 2013 Publication Information: Studies in Philology 110, no. 4 (2013): 789–811. Annotation: Drawing on King Lear to analyze two conceptions of nothingness in English political writing, argues that Shakespeare "dramatizes the tragic impossibility of reconciling [the] two ideological preconceptions." English summary, 789. Language: English Keywords: politics Tags: King Lear, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism WSB Update: Winter 2013 WSB Record Number: bbbc705