Shakespeare and all his poetry (qtd . in Ferris 33 his ellipses . That Thomas was familiar with and admiring of Shakespeare is , of course , no surprise , but his direct linkage of his father with Shakespeare , particularly at this point in time , is interesting , and he demonstrated more than familiarity with King Lear : In 1950 , during one of his reading tours in America , he spent an evening with novelist Peter de Vries (who would later use Thomas as the basis for the...











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