"Forked Animals: King Lear's Cornuted Anthropology"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbo344/
Author:
	Lewis, Alex.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2024
Publication Information:
	Shakespeare Quarterly 75, no. 3 (2024): 202–228.
DOI:
	10.1093/sq/quae029
Annotation:
	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."
Language:
	English
Tags:
	King Lear, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism
WSB Update:
	Fall 2025
WSB Record Number:
	bbbo344