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Self-Satire’s Medicinal Properties

By Robin Bates | Published: October 23, 2023

In “Wonderworks,” Fletcher contends that self-satire helped Socrates deal with death.

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Lear, Trump & the Tyrant’s Loneliness

By Robin Bates | Published: May 31, 2017

Donald Trump is like Lear in that both are trapped in a loneliness of their own making and, in their despair, both make the lives around them miserable. Lear finds his soul again at the end of the play, however. It might take a similar adversity for Trump to do so as well.

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