ABSTRACT
Investigating neglected scholarship must be one of the least strategic moves in the arsenal of academic gamesmanship. Michael Jensen adverts to ‘the current allergy too many scholars have to reading anything more than seven years old’. 1 Michael P. Jensen, ‘John W. Velz, Shakespeare Scholar: Reflections on a Friend’, Shakespeare Newsletter 58.2 (2008): pp. 41, 52. Even so, treasures of thought, research and writing deserve exhumation when they add to our knowledge and understanding of important works of art. This is the case with Butler's Lear.
