Lear Flashcards

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Lear 1.1

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“Nothing will come of nothing, speak again”

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Regan, 1.1

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“He hath but slenderly known himself”

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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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