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19 Cards in this Set
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Leslie Lee |
"The storm on the heath reflects the chaos in the social world of the play, and the increasing instability of Lear's reason" |
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Barbara Everett |
"The old Lear dies in the storm. The new Lear is born in the scene in which he is reunited with Cordelia." |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
"The trial is but a trick" and, feeling entitled, "the King is unexpectedly baffled and disappointed" |
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Suzuki |
"King Lear's failure in understanding the reality of nothing uttered in the opening scene... derives first and foremost from the ignorance of his own true nature" |
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Sun |
"Under his clothes the King is equal to the beggar" |
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Cathy Cupitt |
As the most beloved daughter of King Lear, Cordelia "would have had greater access to personal power through her influence over the King" |
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Paul Cheetham |
"It is difficult to see Cordelia as anything other than an innocent victim" |
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Vanden Berg |
Cordelia "in essence, dies for the sins of her father" |
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Nicholas Bonnett |
"Typical of human nature, Lear is swayed by the sycophantic flattery of his two eldest daughters" |
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Capet |
"Shakespeare very consciously places Edmund outside the domain of human morality in which heroes and villains exist" |
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Harold Bloom |
"Edgar's role exemplifies filial love" |
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George Orwell |
"The Fool is the trickle of sanity running through the play" |
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Isaac Asimov |
"The great secret of the successful fool, is that he is no fool at all" |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
"Kent is, perhaps, the nearest to perfect in all JaShakespeare's characters" |
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Jan Kott |
"King Lear is a play about the disintegration of the world" |
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Nicholas Bonnet |
"The tragic end of the play reflects a nihilistic view point where there is no promised end outside chaos and death" |
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Savvas |
"If gods exist in the play, they are either as blind as Gloucester or as mad as Tom O'Bedlam" |
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Adrian Ingham |
"Lear's madness is a journey as much as it is an illness" |
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Heilman |
"The sanity of the mad is that they can understand eternal truths" |
