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12 Cards in this Set
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‘Plays serve as a moral or cautionaryinfluence on us, because they show... that the good will triumph by the end ofthe story. In Lear we're expecting just that, but Shakespeare won't have it.’ |
TREVORNUNN (Director) |
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“The king towards his people is rightly compared to a father of children” |
KING JAMES I |
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“Jacobean plays are dark, complex andambiguous”
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JAMESSHAPIRO (Historian)
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‘For King Lear is about suffering representedas a condition of the world as we inherit it or make it for ourselves.’ |
FRANKKERMODE (Critic)
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“The play is a microcosm of the human race.” |
L.C.KNIGHTS (Critic) |
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The fool is a mirror...reflecting back at Lear his own concealedimage. He is “Lear’s shadow”. The fool was to reflect andepitomize the folly of the world around him and neutralize it. |
MARJORIEGARBER (Harvard Lecturer/Critic) |
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“Humour is often employed in atragedy to relieve the seriousness created by...a dramaticsituation, but in Lear…the fool’s humour actually leads into greater suffering. |
BEATRICEOTTO (Critic)
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King Lear has “but slenderly known himself” which makes him “apocalypticallyneedy in his demand for love, particularly from the child he truly loves,Cordelia.” |
HAROLDBLOOM (Critic)
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“Love is no healer in The Tragedy of King Lear; indeed it starts all thetrouble, and is a tragedy in itself. |
HAROLDBLOOM (Critic) They afflict Lear and Edgar with an excess of love, and Goneril and Reganwith the torments of lust and jealousy. Nature, invoked by Edmund as hisgoddess, destroys him through the natural vengeance of his brother.” |
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Lear on the heath: “he is raging not against, but with the elements. As he loses his balance, he recognizes that he is losing hissanity.”
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PAULKAHN (Critic)
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“Youcould remove the fool and not alter much in the way of plot structures, but youwould remove out the surrogate from this play, for the fool is the true voiceof our feeling.”
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HaroldBloom
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“Thefool is one of Shakespeare’s triumphs in King Lear...without him we will hardlyknow the tragedy”
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A.C Bradley
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