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His nobles assembled, his two elder daughters with their husbands before him, his youngest daughter present and her two suitors sent for, Lear, King of Britain, asks for the map and, speaking in measured, deliberate tones, announces:
Know that we have divided
In three our kingdom;
he speaks in a language that admits of no doubt: the knowledge that he is transmitting concerning the physical world is certain: the map is in front of everyone to see. The phrase Know that we is spoken in a manner that implies that the listeners must receive the knowledge as incontestable fact.
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© 1993 Zulfikar Ghose
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Ghose, Z. (1993). King Lear: The Bias of Nature. In: Shakespeare’s Mortal Knowledge. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22570-5_4
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