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How does one tie Lear's fool into Shakespear's mixing comedy and tragedy? Can the fool really be seen as a comic character, or only as a conscience counselor to the king? His disappearance at the end of act 3 leads me to believe the latter.
Posted by Tinkerbell on April 23, 1997 at 19:28:18
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