CR Flashcards
Charles Lamb:
‘To see Lear acted, to see an old man tottering about the stage with a walking stick, turned out of doors by his daughters on a rainy night, has nothing in it but what is painful and disgusting.’
Gamani Salgado:
‘In simplest terms, Lear at the beginning of the play is a King, a father, a master and a man. As the action develops, the first three roles are stripped from him and he is forced to consider what the last of them means’
L.C. Knights
‘The first sentence of the play suggests Lear is guilty of bias… his suffering is provisionally seen to be related to an injustice of his own.’
Helen Norris:
‘The horror of Lear’s story is the unnatural behaviour of Goneril and Regan… not only personal sins but an upsetting of civilised values’
John Danby:
‘Of this Nature and kindness Cordelia is the full realisation. She is the norm by which the wrongness of Edmund’s world and the imperfection of Lear’s is judged’
G. Wilson Knight:
‘ “Thou, Nature art my Goddess, to thy law my services are bound” This is key to Edmund’s ‘nature’. He repudiates and rejects ‘custom civilisation’. He obeys nature’s law of selfishness’
‘To see Lear acted, to see an old man tottering about the stage with a walking stick, turned out of doors by his daughters on a rainy night, has nothing in it but what is painful and disgusting.’
Charles Lamb
‘In simplest terms, Lear at the beginning of the play is a King, a father, a master and a man. As the action develops, the first three roles are stripped from him and he is forced to consider what the last of them means’
Gamani Salgado
‘The first sentence of the play suggests Lear is guilty of bias… his suffering is provisionally seen to be related to an injustice of his own.’
L.C Knights
‘The horror of Lear’s story is the unnatural behaviour of Goneril and Regan… not only personal sins but an upsetting of civilised values’
Helen Norris
‘Of this Nature and kindness Cordelia is the full realisation. She is the norm by which the wrongness of Edmund’s world and the imperfection of Lear’s is judged’
John Danby
‘ “Thou, Nature art my Goddess, to thy law my services are bound” This is key to Edmund’s ‘nature’. He repudiates and rejects ‘custom civilisation’. He obeys nature’s law of selfishness’
G. Wilson Knight
John Donnelly:
‘With no male character in the drama does Lear have a good relationship, for Kent is banished and Gloucester does not seem close to him. All his affection is centered on his daughters…’
‘With no male character in the drama does Lear have a good relationship, for Kent is banished and Gloucester does not seem close to him. All his affection is centered on his daughters…’
John Donnelly
Andrew Hadfield:
‘…The play does not represent a king who is ineffective or unimpressive, but one who has not taken enough care of his kingdom.’
