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King Lear quotes Flashcards

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Lear 1.1

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“Nothing will come of nothing, speak again”

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Lear, 1.4

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“Who is it that can tell me who I am?”

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Lear, 3.2

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“I am a man more sinn’d against than sinning”

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Edgar, 3.4

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“Unaccomodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal, as thou art” Spoken in prose, contrasting Lear’s previous blank verse and iambic pentameter, showing he is no longer “Every inch a king”This was also the first recorded use of the phrase ‘unaccomodated man’ in english language

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Bradley

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“He dies in agony… Not of pain but of ecstasy” (In the belief that Cordelia is alive)

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Bruce

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“Although Lear’s actions don’t help, they are the catalyst rather than the cause”

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Harold Bloom

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“The descent from monarch to ‘unaccommodated man’ thus conveys most potently man’s fragility, fallibility and fatality”

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Lear finally finds wisdom

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“They told me I was everything: ‘tis a lis, I an not age-proof”

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A. W. Schlegal

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Lear’s downfall is a “fall from the highest elevation into the deepest abyss of misery”

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Regan, 1.1

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“He hath but slenderly known himself”

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Fintan O’Toole

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“In losing Cordelia, Lear loses his connection to that ordered feudal world”

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A. C. Bradley

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“Evil is overcome and replaced by order, unity and goodness”

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Hazlitt

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“Giddy anarchy”

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Dr Samuel Johnson

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Gloucester’s blinding scene is “one of the most painful in all English theatre”

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Jan Kott

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“All that remains at the end of this gigantic pantomime is the earth, empty and bleeding”

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Samuel Johnson

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“There is no scene which does not add to the aggravation or distress”

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Samuel Johnson

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“A play in which the wicked prosper and the virtuous miscarry”

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D. J. Enright

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“The principal characters are not those who act but those who suffer”

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George Bernard Shaw

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“No man will ever write a better tragedy than Lear”

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Kent, 1.1 [response to Lear]

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“See better”

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Goneril, 1.1

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“Dearer than eyesight”

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Gloucester, 4.1

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“I stumbled when I saw”

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Gloucester, 4.6

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“I see it feelingly”

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Cordelia, 1.1

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“With wash’d eyes, Cordelia leaves you”

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Foakes

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“[Gloucester] gains true sight after he is blinded”

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Lear, 1.1 [to Kent]

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“Out of my sight”

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Lear, 1.1

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“Set my rest on her kind nursery”

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Lear 1.1

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“Great rivals in our youngest daughter’s loveLong in our court”

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Lear, 2.4

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“Thy fifty yet doth double five and twenty, and thou art love her twice”

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R. W. Chambers

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“A vast poem on the victory of true love”

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Mark R. Schwehn

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“Over time, duty and love become one and the same”

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Hazlitt

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“The indiscreet simplicity of her love and the hollowness of her sisters’ pretensions”

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Cavall [on Edgar]

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“He wants his father to still be a father, powerful, so that he can still remain a child”

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Kahn

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“The reason for Lear’s failure is that he fights against his own repressed need for a mother figure”

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Lear, 1.1

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“I lov’d her most”

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Lear, 1.1 [imperatives]

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“Speak” “give” “attend” “mend”

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Lear, 4.7

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“I am a very foolish, fond old man”

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Edmund, 1.2

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Refuses to “stand in the plague of custom”

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France, 1.1

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“That art most rich being poor”

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Mark R. Schwehn

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“Edgar decides to become a beggar, not just any other disguise, because he feels worthless”

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Colie

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“Lear and Gloucester’s realisation about the poor threatens the aristocratic code of the time”

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Dollimore

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“Lear loses his mind when he loses his social status”

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Kenneth Muir

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On Edgar”The roles he plays are the means by which he matures into royalty”

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Lear, 1.1

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“Her price is fall’n”

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Gloucester, 1.2 [on Edgar]

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“Unnatural, detested, brutish villain”

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Lear, 2.4

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“We are not ourselves when nature, being oppress’d, commands the mind to suffer with the body”

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Edgar, 5.2

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“Here father, take the shadow of this tree for your good host”

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Gloucester, 1.2

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“these late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us”

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Lear, 1.1 [to daughters, on love test]

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“where nature doth with merit a challenge”

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Lear, 1.1

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“A wretch whom nature is ashamed”

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What words appear 40+ times?

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“Nature” “natural” “unnatural”

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52
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Hooven

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“Death is neither punishment nor reward: it is simply the nature of things”

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Bradley [on the storm on the heath]

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“Nature herself joins with the forces of evil in man to overpower the weak”

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John F. Dannby [Historicist reading]

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Argues that Lear dramatizes the meaning of nature, reflecting a debate about what nature was really like in Shakespeare’s time.

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Edmund, 1.2

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“Thou, nature, art my goddess”

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Fool, 1.4

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“May not an ass know when the cart draws the horse” Professional eccentric witty madness

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Regan, 3.7

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“Hang him instantly” Obsessed with madness of evil

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Stage direction, 4.6

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“Enter lear, [mad]”

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Lear, 3.3

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“My wits begin to turn”

60
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Gloucester, 4.6

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“The king is mad”

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Edgar, 4.6

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“O matter and impertinency mixed! Reason, in madness!”

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Lear, 4.6

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“Let copulation thrive… There is sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, stench, consumption”

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Muir

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“Edgar, in acting madness, precipitates Lear’s”

64
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Orwell

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“Madness is used to veil Shakespeare’s social criticism”

65
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Heilman

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on wicked characters “Their cool sanity is transmuted into moral madness”

66
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Kiernan Ryan

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“[Lear] displays a degree of rational thought amongst madness”

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Edgar, 2.3

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“Edgar I nothing am”

68
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Human justice: Lear, 4.6

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“Plate sin with gold,And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks”

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Justice and morality: Edgar, 5.3

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“The dark and vicious place where thee he got Cost him his eyes”

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Divine justice: Lear, 1,1

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Swears by Pagan deities: “Sacres radiance of the sun” “Mysteries of Hecate and the night” “Apollo” “Jupiter”

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Divine justice: Lear, 2.4 [to Goneril]

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“If you do love old-men… Send down and take my part” begging for help from the heavens

72
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What word is said 31 times in the play?

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“God”

73
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Divine justice: benign: Regan, 2.4

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“Bless’d Gods”

74
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Divine justice: benign:Albany, 4.2

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“You are aboveYou justicers”

75
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Divine justice: benign:Cordelia, 4.7

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“O you kind Gods”

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Divine justice: benign:Edgar, 5.3

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“The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices,Make instruments to plague us”

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Divine justice: benign:Gloucester, 4.6

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“You ever-gentle Gods”

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Divine justice: malign: Gloucester, 4.6

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“As flies to wanton boys are we to th’gods;They kill us for their sport”

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Divine Justice: Norman Maclean

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“Lear believed in a universe controlled by divine authority, harmony, ordered in it’s parts”

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Human justice: Goneril, 5.3

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“The laws are mine, not thine. Who can arraign me for’t?”

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Edgar, 1.3

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“Some villain hath done me wrong”

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Edgar, 2.3

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“Edgar I nothing am”

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Edgar, 5.3

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“We should speak what we feel, not what we ought to say”

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Edgar 5.3 [to Edmund]

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“I am no less in blood than thou art, Edmund”

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Edgar, 2.3

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“I will preserve myself to take the basest and most poorest shape”

86
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Gloucester, 4.1

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“O dear son Edgar… Might I but live to see thee in my touchI’d say I had eyes again”

87
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Edgar, 4.6

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“Reason, in madness!”

88
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Lear, 3.4 [on Edgar]

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“Philosopher”

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Edgar, 3.4 [on Lear]

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“Unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art”

90
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Cavell

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“He wants his father still to be a father, powerful, so that he can still remain a child”

91
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Leo Kirschbaum

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“His various roles do not tell hs more abour Edgar”

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Fool, 1.4

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“I am a fool, thou art nothing”

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Fool, 2.4

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“Fathers that wear ragsDo make their children blind”

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Fool, 1.5

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“She that’s a maid now”

95
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Lear, 5.3

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“And my poor fool is hanged”

96
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G. Wilson Knight

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“the Fool is used as a chorus”

97
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Goneril, 1.4

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“All-licens’d”

98
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France, 1.1

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“Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich being poor”

99
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Lear, 4.7

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“You are a spirit I know” Cordelia has transcended physical level

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Cordelia, 1.1

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“The jewels of our father, with wash’d eyes Cordelia leaves you”

101
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Brandes

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“The living emblem of womanly dignity”

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Cordelia, 1.1 [to G+R]

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“I know you what you are”

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Goneril, 1.1 [to Regan]

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“You see how full of change his age is”

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Goneril, 1.3

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“Old fools are babes again”

105
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Goneril, 2.4 [to Lear]

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“What need you five-and-twenty? Ten? Or five?”

106
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Goneril, 1.5 [to Albany]

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“this milky gentleness and course of yours” Macbeth: “Milk of human kindness”

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Goneril, 3.7

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“Pluck out his eyes”

108
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Goneril, 4.2 [to Albany]

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“Milk-liver’d man! That bear’st a cheek for blows”

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Goneril, 5.1

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“I had rather lose the battle than that sister Should loosen him and me”

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Goneril, 5.3 [aside]

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“If not I’ll ne’er trust medicine”

111
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J. Stampfer

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“[Goneril] is, from the point of view of conscience, an animal or beast of prey”

112
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Hazlitt

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“Their deliberate hypocrisy adds the lasting finishing to the odiousness of their characters”

113
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Goneril, 1.1 [to Lear]

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“I love you more than words can wield the matter”

114
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Regan, 2.2 [sadistic]

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“Till night, my Lord, and all night too”

115
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Regan, 3.7 [sadistic]

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“One side will mock the other”

116
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Regan, 2.4

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“O, sir, you are old”

117
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Regan, 3.7

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“Hang him instantly”

118
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Wharton

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Goneril and Regan’s behaviour is “Too diabolical to be creditable”

119
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Regan, 1.1

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“I am made of that selfsame metal that my sister is, And prize me at her worth.”

120
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Edmund, 1.2

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“Now, gods, stand up for bastards”

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Gloucester, 2.1

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“Loyal and natural boy”

122
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Edmund, 3.3

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“The younger rises when the old doth fall”

123
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Edmund, 5.1 [on Goneril and Regan]

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“To both these sisters I have sworn my love”

124
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Edmund, 5.3

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“Some good I mean to do Despite of mine own nature”

125
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G. Wilson Knight

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“Edmund’s fate is nobly tragic”

126
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Hazlitt

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“All [he does is] managed with an uncommon degree of skill and power”

127
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When Edmund is punished for his ruthless rise to power, he says “the wheel is come in full circle, I am here”. This is similar to what?

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Sophocles ‘Ajax’ when upon the death of Ajax, Teucer states “that wheel comes surely round”

128
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Edmund, 1.1 [to Gloucester]

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“No my lord”

129
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Gloucester, 4.1

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“I stumbled when I saw”

130
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Gloucester 4.1

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“As flies to wanton boys are we to th’ gods.They kill us for their sport”

131
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Gloucester, 3.4

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“I am almost mad myself”

132
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Edmund, 1.2

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“A credulous father”

133
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Gloucester 3.4 [to Lear and Edgar]

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“Our flesh and blood is grown so vile”

134
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Gloucester,

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“I am your host, do me no foul play, friends”

135
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Gloucester, 2.1

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“My old heart is crack’d, it’s cracked!”

136
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Kent, 5.3

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“I have a journey sir, shortly to go.My master calls me; I must not say no”

137
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Kent, 1.1 [to Edmund]

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“I must love you and sue to know you better”

138
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Kent, 1.1 [opening lines]

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“I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall”

139
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Kent, 1.1 [pun]

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“I cannot conceive you”

140
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Kent, 4.3

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“It is the stars, the stars above us govern our conditions”

141
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Kent, 2.2 [to Oswald]

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“Filthy, worsted-stocking knave”

142
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Kent, 2.4 [says of himself]

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“Having more man than wit about me”

143
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Coleridge

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“The nearest to perfect goodness in all Shakespeare’s characters”

144
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Kent, 1.1

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“See better”

145
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Dollimore

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“King Lear questions the Jacobean status quo”

146
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Nahum Tate

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“A heap of jewels, unstrung and unpolished”

147
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Emma Smith

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The lack of emotion in evil characters would have worried Christian Jacobean audience, especially as King Lear is “a Christian play about a pagan world”

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