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Title: key King Lear Shakespeare quotes
Description: A full document of all the most useful and interesting critical views on Shakespeare's 'King Lear'. Aside range of critics have been looked at and their views condensed into key quotes that are perfect for use in any essay.
Description: A full document of all the most useful and interesting critical views on Shakespeare's 'King Lear'. Aside range of critics have been looked at and their views condensed into key quotes that are perfect for use in any essay.
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KING LEAR CRITISISM:
• ‘an early recognition of his error does not save him’ (mark van)
• ‘the 2 plots become progressively entangled,’ (cedric watts)
• Coppelia khan talks about regression to childhood state, lear wanting a
mother figure from his children by reversing the roles of parent and child,
old age and childlike rage give him an infantile disposition
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’ (A
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Bradley)
• ‘the subplot is easier to grasp because its characters tend to account for
their sufferings in traditional moral language; it also pictorializes the
main action, supplying interperated visual emblems for some of the plays
important themes’ (bridgit gellert lyons)
• ‘the addition of variety…and connecting the wicked son with the wicked
daughters to impress this important moral
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’ (simon
palfrey)
• ‘the action that triggers the whole hideous train of events is among the
most ordinary of decisions; a retirement
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(enid welsford)
• ‘a man who has een encouraged to believe that he is the closest thing to a
god
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’ (john Cunningham)
• ‘love’ should be to appraise, estimate or state the price of value
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’
(marylin French)
• ‘in order to accept the pity and fear we must accept that fathers are owed
particular duties by their daughters’ – (Kathleen mcluskie)
• ‘any attempt to represent her silent love is already tainted’ by her sisters
flattery
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’ (Samuel Johnson)
• the fool does not follow any ideologys…he has no illusions he knows that
the only true madness is to recognise thr world as rational
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’ (Michael
Baldwin)
• ‘mothers milk marks feminity and its associated qualities: mercy,
gentleness, vurnerability
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(Kristen linklater)
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the minds own anticipation of madness
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’ (Coleridge)
‘simply repeats the theme of the main story’ and ‘universalises
ingratitude and intensifies the tragic effect’ (R
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Elton)
‘man reduced to his essentials needs ot welth, not power, nor even
freedom, but…a mutual forgivenes’ (Kenneth muir)
‘in edgars ravings Shakespeare all the while lets you see a fixed purpose, a
practical end in view: in lears there is only the brooding of the one
anguish, an eddy without progression
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wilson
knight)
‘tactless jokes and snatches of song spring so evidently from genuine
greif
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(videbeck)
‘suffocation of the mother…the womb itself wandered
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’ (Sujata lyengar)
’its disputed whether the prodimonant image in lears disordered mind be
the loss of his kingdom or cruelty of his daughters’ (Johnson s)
‘the verge of life’ (w
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elton)
‘the place of illusion’ (Goldberg)
‘the plays one minute, virtuoso description of a definite location turns out
to be a lie
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’ (Samuel Johnson)
‘in the case of thunderand lightening the audience was almost invariably
prompted to expect the supernatural
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traverse)
‘in no other play of Shakespeare does such a sustained event of nature
share the stage with characters’ –(susas viguers)
His ‘old age like infancy I itself a character’ (S
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Coleridge)
‘theodicity means divine injustice…if there exists a just god why permit
injustice?’ (cederic watt)
submission to the cruelty of an indifferent nature, less cruel to him than
his own kin
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D
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enwright)
‘king lear speaks of a world more problematical…larder, looser, cruder,
crueller
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‘where his first banishment of her was rejection of death he has now
made friends with the necessity of dying’ (freud)
‘edmund has no passioons whatsoever; he has never loved anyone and he
never will, in that respect he is shakespeares most original character’
(Harold bloom)
for it is ofte seene that a men weepeth for joy, so it is not strange to see
one laugh for greif’ (w
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elton)
‘senile dementia…the desperate effort of the subconscious to arrert that
we are not really old or mortal, we still get love and respect, we have not
lost our power
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Title: key King Lear Shakespeare quotes
Description: A full document of all the most useful and interesting critical views on Shakespeare's 'King Lear'. Aside range of critics have been looked at and their views condensed into key quotes that are perfect for use in any essay.
Description: A full document of all the most useful and interesting critical views on Shakespeare's 'King Lear'. Aside range of critics have been looked at and their views condensed into key quotes that are perfect for use in any essay.