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For this Father’s Day edition of Medium Cool, let’s talk about fictional fathers. I’m reading James Shapiro’s excellent The Year of Lear, which features one of the crappiest fathers in literary history (Shakespeare is full of them), and it has me thinking about how fathers are portrayed in literary history. Let’s include films, TV, art, or wherever else you can find one.