‘Thy truth then be thy dower’: King Lear and Defiance of a COVID Shutdown Order
Larvita McFarquhar is a single mother who owns Haven’s Garden, a bar and restaurant in Lynd, Minnesota, population 448. After the state’s governor issued an order, of questionable authority under the state constitution, closing all bars and restaurants, Ms. McFarquhar announced that Havens Garden would remain open. For those of us who believe that this quarantine should, like every other one in history until now, involve the sick and not the healthy, Haven’s Garden is a haven of freedom, indeed. In King Lear, the king’s youngest daughter, Cordelia, remained similarly true to …
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