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This is a rich interpretation of a rich text. Ben Amara provides a twenty-first century reading of a timeless masterpiece, and in so doing he can point to the relationship of death and desire as a playing both with body and language. He delights in confronting his readers with the ineluctable patterns which language and time inscribe within the open/closed Shakespearean space: Degree, division, and diversity as the focal points. Emphasis upon the corporeality of the human body concatenates this study's textual interpretation with the corpus of the literary canon, itself seen as a body divided by performance and differed by reading. It is also true that The Fragmentation of the Proper Name and the Crisis of Degree: Deconstructing King Lear prevails over the damaging engagement with the deconstructed text and dominates the conflictual tendencies of the reconstructed drama. Christopher Mulvey, King Alfred's College, Wincester, England

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Radhouan Ben Amara is professor of French at the University of Cagliari in Italy.

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