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Stay at Home Shakespeare 5: Emma Whipday goes outside in King Lear

In Stay at Home Shakespeare 5, Emma Whipday explores the idea of shelter, ‘Bedlam beggars’, homelessness, and the dangers of going outside in King Lear.

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For more on these ideas, see:

  • Simon Palfrey Poor Tom: Living King Lear 2014
  • Emma Whipday Shakespeare’s Domestic Tragedies 2019
    Afterword
  • Linda Woodbridge Vagrancy, Homelessness and English Renaissance Literature 2001