King Lear Critics Flashcards
Keats
bitter sweet of this Shakespearean fruit
Heilman (on Lear)
He insists upon the untenable proposition that love can be measured
Shupack (on Cordelia’s death)
‘denies the necessity of a just natural order’
Woods (on the Fool)
A fractured mirror of Lear himself
Rutter (on Regan and Goneril)
The reactive process to Lear’s effeminization… they now assume the male voice.
Savvas (on justice)
Justice implies only punishment… this is a world without forgiveness.
Heilman (on the central conflict of Lear)
The conflict is an emanation of that in the individual soul
Dunn (on the storm)
Connotations of doomsday
Shapiro
Insistent and apocalyptic negativity becomes a reoccurring drum beat
Orwell (about the Fool)
Like a trickle of sanity running through the play
Mortenson (on Albany)
A fully developed guardian of order
Green
The audience is continually forced to recognise the gap which lies between utterance and truth
