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What does Beauclerk say about Edmund?

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Edmund is essentially an actor, who uses language of the old order - language of pity and responsibility … For his own political ambitions

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Critics on Edmund

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Charles Beauclerk, Race Capet, Nancy Maguire

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What does Capet argue about Edmund?

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Far from being a villain, the self-proclaimed devotee of nature functions, amid the collapse of social order … as the emissary of nature

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What does Maguire argue about Edmund’s final lines?

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His attempt to redeem his lonely self is a gesture which conveys his suffering as an individual … We can now pardon his impulse to acquire in order to protect himself.

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Feminist critics

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Kathleen McLuskie and Marilyn French

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What is McLuskie’s argument?

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Goneril and Regan are presented as demons, monsters, anything but human … Women in power can only bring disgrace.

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Marilyn French quote

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Which critics offer nihilistic readings?

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Algernon Swinburne and Jan Kott

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What is Swinburne’s quote?

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The doctrine of Shakespeare … Is darker in its implication of injustice, it’s acceptance of accident. … Righteousness itself seems subject and subordinate to the masterdom of fate

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Critics on family

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Charley Hanly and Coppelia Kahn

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Coppelia Kahn quote

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Lear’s madness is essentially his rage at being deprived of the maternal presence/Lear has habitually suppressed any needs for love

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Which critics comment on the role of the Fool?

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Marjorie Garber and Harold Bloom

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What is Garber’s quote?

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The fool is a mirror … Reflecting back at Lear his own concealed image

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Critics on madness

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Adrian Ingham, Josephine W Bennett, Charley Hanly

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What points does Hanly make?

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Madness is used as a device to strip away the illusory aspects of royalty

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What does Adrian Ingham believe is the most accurate description of Lear’s madness?

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Unnatural melancholy, as outlined by Timothie Bright

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Unnatural melancholy quote

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‘The heavy hand of God upon the afflicted conscience, tormented by remorse of sin’

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Critics on Gloucester’s blinding

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L.C. Knight, S.L. Goldberg, A.M. Colman

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What does L.C. Knight say?

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The gouging out of Gloucester’s eyes is a thing unnecessary, crude, and disgusting … It helps to provide an accompanying exaggeration of one element - that of cruelty - in the horror that makes Lear’s madness

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What does A.M Colman claim?

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In such a world, where gods are absent … Gloucester’s suffering and subsequent despair must inspire pity

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S.L Goldberg

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The sheer fact of Gloucester’s blinding, and our sheer horrified rejection of it as unendurable … Stand at the very centre of the play

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What does Anna Hermesmann argue?

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Shakespeare emphasises the absence of justice in order to highlight the necessity of Christian values

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Hermesmann quote

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There is no just force to establish objective morality

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A.C Bradley quote

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The business of the gods… Was not to torment him…but lead him to attain … The very end and aim of life

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Frank kermode

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Shakespeare concerns himself with the contrast between the two bodies of the king; one lives by ceremony, administering justice in distinguished regalia which set him above nature … The other is born naked, subject to disease and pain.

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G. Wilson knight quote (Gloucester’s suicide)

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The grotesque merged into the ridiculous reaches its consummation in this bathos of tragedy

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Timothie Bright

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The heavy hand of God upon the afflicted conscience, tormented by remorse of sin

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Howard Furness

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So carelessly hurried over that it comes to nothing… By its own unimpressiveness makes insignificant everything that has reference to it

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Charles Hanly on madness

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Lear’s madness is a device for stripping away the narcissistic illusory aspects of royalty

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Hanley on Lear’s demand

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Nothing could be more threatening to a daughter than the demand
Lear makes … Goneril and Regan … are confronted by a father whose love for them is eroticised

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Jan Kott

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There is nothing, except the cruel earth where man goes on his journey from cradle to grave

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G.B Harrison

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Shakespeare effected a grim irony by the use of two words which sound throughout the play like the tolling of a knell: ‘nature’ and ‘nothing’.

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Doctor Johnson on cordelia’s death

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Contrary to the natural ideals of justice

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Doctor Johnson on Lear’s pain

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Lear would move our compassion but little, did we not rather consider the injured father than the degraded King

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Swinburne quote

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The doctrine of Shakespeare is darker in its implication of injustice, it’s acceptance of accident … Righteousness itself is subject and subordinate to the masterdom of fate

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S.L. Bethell

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Lear, after being bound upon a fiery wheel, attaining patience and humility, is fit for heaven

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Beauclerk on compassion

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This new language of compassion proclaims a new social order founded on the politics of love

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Kenneth Muir quote

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‘The gods are indifferent, or hostile … there is no afterlife in which the injustices of life on Earth may be set right.’

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William Hazlitt

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‘Giddy anarchy’

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Which critic saw Cordelia as a symbol of Christ?

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SL Bethell

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G Wilson Knight quote

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Mankind is … Deliberately or comically tormented by the gods

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Jonathan Dollimore

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Albany and Edgar vainly try to rebuild society in the same flawed pattern - Shakespeare questions it’s ‘faulty ideological structure’

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Dr Heilman

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Nature as a vital force, versus nature as ordained order - salvation versus damnation. Natural as moral.

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Charles Hanly Quote about G+R

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If Edmund was driven by jealous rage against his brother … can less be said of Goneril and Regan?

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Kenneth muir (nature)

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The animal imagery is designed partly to show mans place on the chain of being, and to bring out the subhuman nature of the evil characters

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Alexander Leggatt

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The double was of nature … Destructive on the one hand, beneficent on the other

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Thomas McFarland

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Grievously contrary to primogeniture and the cosmic order

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Catherine S Cox

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Archetypes of virago and Virgo

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Harold bloom

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Fool bridges gap between audience and play; chorus function

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