Critics Flashcards
1
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What does Peter Hyland argue and what theme or character links to the argument?
A
- The performance of Disguise
- Edgar, Kent. The Fool - words
- Disguise
2
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What does Nicolo Machiavelli argue and what theme or character links to the argument?
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- Chapter 17 - Better to be feared than to be loved
- Chapter 18 - Princes should keep faith
- Edmund
3
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What does Tillyard and Lovejoy argue and what theme or character links to the argument?
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- The Great Chain of Being
- Lear
- Could argue for Goneril and Regan
4
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What does King James the first say?
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- Kings act upon God’s orders on Earth
5
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What does James Daybell argue and what theme or character link to the argument?
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- Women should be encouraged to show a form of submissiveness toward their fathers and their husbands.
- Goneril and Regan
- Cordelia
- Power
- Misogyny
6
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What did Susan Bruce argue and what themes or characters link to the argument?
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- Dirty Rotten Bastards
- Edmund
- Morality
- Leads to a Renaissance audience to question Edmund’s morality
7
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What did Gillian Woods argue and what themes to characters link to the argument?
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- King Lear is a breakdown of civilization depicting the effects of madness.
- “all the values that we think of as protecting our sense of humanity is attacked.”
- King Lear
8
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What did Maynard Mack argue and what themes or characters link to the argument?
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- Madness offers insight
- King Lear
- The Fool???
9
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What does A.C Bradley argue?
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- Shakespearean tragedy necessarily centres on a character of high rank and exceptional qualities who undergoes a reversal of fortune that leads to his own death.
10
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What does Nuttal consider?
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- The tension between pleasure and pain in tragic drama.
- A modern audience see heavy topics as something to praise
- Old reviewers praise the balance between the two.
11
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What does Katsan argue?
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- Questions about whether the causes of suffering lie in human weakness, divine retribution or arbitrary fate.
- Not a clear explanation as to why people suffer.
12
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What does Rutter argue?
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- Argues that the play explores deep and anxieties about female power in relation to language.
- She related women’s tongues to eels mentioned by the Fool in Act 2 Scene 4 - they would not stay down in the paste to be eaten alive.
- Cursing is the language of the political exclusion.
13
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What does Kermode argue?
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- “Suffering is the consequence of a human tendency to evil”
- “The voices of good are distorted by pain, those of the bad by the coarse excess of their wickedness.”
- By Cordelia saying ‘nothing’ she announces the intention of preferring to be silent
14
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- What does O Toole argue?
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- ## Describes how King Lear upsets any comfortably, moral assumptions on the part of the audience.
