King Lear Critics Flashcards
Knight
“Edmund rejects custom civilisation”
Johnathan Dollimore
“A play about power, property and inheritance”
AC Bradley
“Monstrously unjust”
Rebecca Warren (Edmund)
“Edmund is a master manipulator and a fine actor”
Rebecca Warren (Lear’s entrance)
“Lear’s entrance is impressive, suggesting power” - Link to Gregory Doran RSC
Rebecca Warren (Property)
“We learn that property and inheritance issues are at stake”
RA Foakes (Old)
“An old pensioner with nothing royal about him”
McLuske
“Women with opinions frighten men”
RA Foakes (suffering)
“The anguish of human suffering brought about by the inhumanity of man”
Rebecca Warren (hope)
“There is a brief moment of hope when Lear describes his life with Cordelia in prison, but his dreams are revealed as an illusion almost immediately”
Kermode
“Shakespeare’s cruellest tragedy”
