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This paper examines the significance of the stars and fortune in Shakespeare's "King Lear" and answers the questions: "Do the stars or fortune actually have anything to do with the occurrences of the play?" and "What is the relationship between the characters and the stars?"

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"Throughout Shakespeare's "King Lear" the mention of fortune and the stars is a recurrent theme reflective of the Elizabethan view of the world. The influence of the stars on human events gets its roots in the Elizabethan concept known as the chain of being. This concept presumes that everything in the universe is ordered in hierarchical fashion from greatest to least, with God at the top and microorganisms at the bottom."

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