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I found my impression of the extraordinary ineffectiveness of this battle (p. 218) confirmed by a paper of James Spedding (New Shakespere Society Transactions, 1877, on Furness’s King Lear, p. 312 f.); but his opinion that this is the one technical defect in King Lear seems certainly incorrect, and his view that this defect is not due to Shakespeare himself will not, I think, bear scrutiny.
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Bradley, A.C. (1992). The Battle in King Lear. In: Shakespearean Tragedy. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22059-5_34
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