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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.

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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
...
’  (A
...
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
...
’  (simon  
palfrey)  
• ‘the  action  that  triggers  the  whole  hideous  train  of  events  is  among  the  
most  ordinary  of  decisions;  a  retirement
...
   (enid  welsford)  
• ‘a  man  who  has  een  encouraged  to  believe  that  he  is  the  closest  thing  to  a  
god
...
’  (john  Cunningham)  
• ‘love’  should  be  to  appraise,  estimate  or  state  the  price  of  value
...
’  
(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
...
’  (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
...
’  (Michael  
Baldwin)    
•  ‘mothers  milk  marks  feminity  and  its  associated  qualities:  mercy,  
gentleness,  vurnerability
...
’  
(Kristen  linklater)  




























the  minds  own  anticipation  of  madness
...
’  (Coleridge)  
‘simply  repeats  the  theme  of  the  main  story’  and  ‘universalises  
ingratitude  and  intensifies  the  tragic  effect’  (R
...
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
...
wilson  
knight)  
‘tactless  jokes  and  snatches  of  song  spring  so  evidently  from  genuine  
greif
...
’    
(videbeck)  
‘suffocation  of  the  mother…the  womb  itself  wandered
...
’  (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
...
elton)  
‘the  place  of  illusion’  (Goldberg)  
‘the  plays  one  minute,  virtuoso  description  of  a  definite  location  turns  out  
to  be  a  lie
...
’  (Samuel  Johnson)  
‘in  the  case  of  thunderand  lightening  the  audience  was  almost  invariably  
prompted  to  expect  the  supernatural
...
’  (d
...
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
...
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
...
’  
D
...
enwright)  
‘king  lear  speaks  of  a  world  more  problematical…larder,  looser,  cruder,  
crueller
...
’  (john  reibetanz)  










 





‘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
...
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.