King Lear Critics names Flashcards
It is the most appropriate conclusion possible.
Adams
Individuals represent a much greater social divide.
Bruce
Lear’s actions are a catalyst, not a cause, because this world faces inevitable destruction outside an individuals control
Bruce
‘God overthrows the absolutely evil… he deals strangely with the Cordelia’s of this world’
Duthie
‘We are left with a maimed (permanently damaged) society’
Selden
‘You can be an angle (Cordelia), or you can be a monster (Goneril and Regan). There is no middle ground’.
Bruce
‘The stage is empty throughout: there is nothing’
Kott
‘Members of the gentry, foreign ambassadors, butchers, tailors and leather workers, citizens’ wives, prostitutes…’
Kidnie
‘The gods have not quite yet stood up for bastards’. Legitimacy is still presumed as latest legitimacy act in 1976 says illegitimate children can only be legitimate if their parents marry
Bruce
'’King Lear’ is a Christian play set about a Pagan world’
Maxwell
‘In the storm scene Lear is at his most powerful’.
Everett
‘a play about power, property and inheritance’.
Dollimore
‘Lear has to be stripped of all his office and power before he can see through the ideology of kingship’
McEvoy
'’King Lear’ is dystopian’.
Smith
‘Shakespeare reinforces patriarchal power’
McLuskie
