CRITICISMS

Question 1

“The idea of tragedy as the fall from prosperity to wretchedness”

Answer 1

David Kastan

Question 2

“Tragedy, for Shakespeare, is the genre of uncompensated suffering”

Answer 2

David Kastan

Question 3

David Kastan: “The ___ of ____ as the fall from ______ to ______”

Answer 3

Idea
Tragedy
Prosperity
Wretchedness

Question 4

David Kastan: “____, for Shakespeare, is the _____ of ______ _______”

Answer 4

Tragedy
Genre
Uncompensated
Suffering

Question 5

People take “a cruel or sadistic pleasure” in characters pain and suffering

Answer 5

A. D. Nuttall

Question 6

The pleasure of tragedy, the “basic collision between terrible matter and a delighted response”

Answer 6

A. D. Nuttall

Question 7

A. D. Nuttall: people take “a ___ or _____ ______” in characters _____ and _______

Answer 7

Cruel
Sadistic 
Pleasure
Pain 
Suffering

Question 8

A. D. Nuttall: the ____ of ____, the “basic _____ between terrible ____ and a _____ _______”

Answer 8

Pleasure 
Tragedy 
Collision 
Matter 
Delighted 
Response

Question 9

Tragedies are “preeminently the story of one person, the ‘hero’”

Answer 9

A. C. Bradley

Question 10

“Essentially a tale of suffering and calamity conducting to death”

Answer 10

A. C. Bradley

Question 11

A. C. Bradley: ____ are “______ the ____ of one ______, the ‘____’”

Answer 11

Tragedies 
Preeminently
Story 
Person
Hero

Question 12

A. C. Bradley: “____ a ___ of _____ and ____ ________ to ____”

Answer 12

Essentially
Tale 
Suffering 
Calamity
Conducting 
Death

Question 13

In King Lear, “madness is to some degree a punishment or doom,” which corresponds to the adage “those whom Jupiter wishes to destroy, he first drives mad”

Answer 13

Maynard Mack

Question 14

Lear, in his madness, gives us “free yet relevant associations,” particularly about “the corruption of the Jacobean social system”

Answer 14

Maynard Mack

Question 15

Maynard Mack: In King Lear, “___ is to some ______ a ________ or ____,” which _____ to the _____, “those whom ______ wishes to ______, he first _____ mad”

Answer 15

Madness
Degree 
Punishment 
Doom 
Corresponds 
Adage 
Jupiter 
Destroy
Drives

Question 16

Maynard Mack: Lear, in his ______, gives ___ “ _____ yet _____ associations,” particularly about the “______ of the ______ _____ system”

Answer 16

Madness 
Us 
Free
Relevant
Corruptions 
Jacobean 
Social

Question 17

Femininity is presented as “a series of disturbed images”

Answer 17

Carol Rutter

Question 18

Female cursing is threatening because it reflects ideas of a “Fury-ous authority beyond the male control”

Answer 18

Carol Rutter

Question 19

Lear “appropriated women’s discourse” much earlier on, when he “fell to cursing,” which is “the language of political exclusion,” and “frustration rhetoricized”

Answer 19

Carol Rutter

Question 20

Carol Rutter: _____ is presented as “a _____ of _____ ______”

Answer 20

Femininity
Series
Disturbed
Images

Question 21

Carol Rutter: Lear “_______ women’s _______” much earlier on, when he “____ to ______,” which is “the ______ of ______ ______,” and “_______ _______”

Answer 21

Appropriates 
Discourse 
Fell
Cursing 
Language 
Political
Exclusion 
Frustration 
Rhetoricized

Question 22

Carol Rutter: Female ______ is ______ because it _____ ideas of a “_______ authority _____ the ____ control”

Answer 22

Cursing 
Threatening 
Reflects 
Fury-ous 
Beyond 
Male

Question 23

Goneril and Regan “now assume the male voice, the male space Lear abandons”

Answer 23

Carol Rutter

Question 24

Carol Rutter: Goneril and _____ “now ____ the male ____, the male _____ Lear _____”

Answer 24

Regan
Assume 
Voice
Space
Abandons

Question 25

“The opposition between speech and silence that the play always constructs as an opposition between mouth and heart”

Answer 25

Carol Rutter

Question 26

Carol Rutter: “The ______ between ____ and ______ that the play always ______ as an ________ between _____ and ______”

Answer 26

Opposition 
Speech 
Silence 
Constructs 
Opposition 
Mouth 
Heart

Question 27

“The play makes the daughters ugly: the two who speak are monsters; the one who does not is monstered”

Answer 27

Carol Rutter

Question 28

Carol Rutter: the play ____ the daughters ____: the ____ who ____ are ______; the ____ who does not is _________”

Answer 28

Makes
Ugly
Two
Speak
Monsters
One
Monstered

Question 29

Lear’s command that his daughters should speak are “put against cultural practice, the audience’s expectation that good women keep their mouths shut”

Answer 29

Carol Rutter

Question 30

Carol Rutter: Lear’s ______ that his _______ should _____ are “put against _______ ______, the ________ expectation that _____ women keep their _____ shut”

Answer 30

Command 
Daughters 
Speak 
Cultural
Practice 
Audience’s 
Good 
Mouths

Question 31

“Suffering is the consequence of a human tendency to evil, as inflicted on the good by the bad”

Answer 31

Frank Kermode

Question 32

Frank Kermode: “______ is the _____ of a _____ _______ to evil, as _____ on the _____ by the ____”

Answer 32

Suffering
Consequence 
Human 
Tendency
Inflicted 
Good
Bad

Question 33

Suffering can “reduce humanity to a bestial condition”

Answer 33

Frank Kermode

Question 34

Frank Kermode: Suffering can “_____ humanity to a _____ condition”

Answer 34

Reduce

Bestial