critics

Question 1

burns

Answer 1

Goneril and Regan are formidable, not evil

Question 2

foakes

Answer 2

lear is a pathetic senior citizen

Question 3

kahn

Answer 3

Edmund’s cause is not unjust

Question 4

cohen - something, someone …

Answer 4

must die for something else to be born and peace to be restored

Question 4

what is the heath representative of

Answer 4

man beyond society
IGNATIEFF

Question 5

sisson

Answer 5

abuse of justice by the king

Question 6

rubio

Answer 6

cordelia uses silence, the only possible form of subversion for women of the time

Question 7

johnson

Answer 7

play where wicked prosper
good miscarry

Question 8

kahn

Answer 8

edmunds cause is not unjust

Question 9

cunningham

Answer 9

gloucester gains insight through blindness

Question 10

savvas

Answer 10

lear learns through his suffering

Question 11

human condition - BLOOm

Answer 11

descent from monarch to unaccommodated man conveys man’s fragility

Question 12

schlegel

Answer 12

kent = closest thing to perfect goodness in one of shakespeare’s characters

Question 13

elton - cordelia’s death

Answer 13

actions in an apparently derranged world