King Lear Critical Quotes Flashcards
1
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Jan Knolt: “King Lear is about…
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The disintegration of the world”.
2
Q
Kathleen Mcluskie: “A destructive reversal…
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Of the rightful order”.
3
Q
Kathleen Mcluskie: “women are made to…
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…submit - Cordelia - or must be destroyed - Goneril and Reagan.”
4
Q
S.L Goldberg: “There is no…
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supernatural justice, only human natural justice”.
5
Q
Helen Norris: “the horror of Lears story…
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Is the unnatural behaviour of Regan and Goneril”.
6
Q
A. Kettle: “Lear’s madness is…
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Not so much a breakdown as a breakthrough. It is necessary.”
