A King Lear of the debtors' prison: Dickens and Shakespeare on mortal shame.

Social Research | December 22, 2003| | Copyright

WHILE he spoke, he was opening and shutting his hands like valves; so conscious all the time of that touch of shame, that he shrunk before his own knowledge of his meaning" (1.19.190). (1) That picture of the Father of the Marshalsea, as he is called in Dickens's Little Dorrit, has always stuck in my mind. Only Dickens, perhaps, would think of the man's shame being betrayed in this way by his hands. The most coherent satire in the same novel features the great financier Merdle (the French connotations of his name unmistakable) "with his hands crossed under his uneasy ...

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