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17 Cards in this Set
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Lear is a problem |
Maynard Mack |
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There is no scene which does not lead to the aggravation of distress |
Samuel Johnson |
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After so many sufferings lear can only die |
A. W Schlegal |
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All that remains at the end of this gigantic pantomime is the earth, empty and bleeding |
Jan Kott |
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In no other of his tragedies does humanity appear more pitiably infirm or more hopelessly bad |
Muir |
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[Edgar] is cruel to his father |
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Conflict is within one man rather than outside of himself |
A. C Bradley |
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Regan, Goneril and Cordelia are adrift in an ahistorical story, where the audience knows nothing of their childhood, their mother, or what kind of father Lear has been... many of their actions seem motiveless. |
Cathy Cupitt |
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Is it really so surprising that people who seem to have had no power in either the domestic or political sphere should behave inappropriately when power is given to them? |
Cathy Cupitt |
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Cordelia is all that is good part of the... tradition of beauty in women... Interestingly she is part of the revolutionary events, and anarchy that arise in the play |
Cathy Cupitt |
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The condemnation of these rebellious daughters is only possible if one ignores the difficulties and hardships faced by "powerful" women in a patriarchal society |
Cathy Cupitt |
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Lear comes to despise the female form. Could this be because his age means his virility is waning, and he is bitter because of this? |
John Kelly |
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Gloucester |
John Ellis |
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The weight of her (Cordelia's) love is too firmly rooted in her heart that she can't turn it into "verbal currency" |
John. E Van Domelen |
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The word love is used 48 times The word fool 49 |
John E Domelen |
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She is not complex or developed because she does not need to be. |
Urban Lofgen |
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In both situations love happens to coincide happily with material advantage and filial duty... Caprice alone can be said to constitute the couple's difficulty |
A N Kaul |
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