Madness Flashcards
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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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Edgar, 2.3
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“Edgar I nothing am”
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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”
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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”
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Orwell
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“Madness is used to veil Shakespeare’s social criticism”
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Heilman
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on wicked characters “Their cool sanity is transmuted into moral madness”
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Kiernan Ryan
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“[Lear] displays a degree of rational thought amongst madness”
