Nature Flashcards
Gloucester, 1.2 [on Edgar]
“Unnatural, detested, brutish villain”
Edmund, 1.2
“Thou, nature, art my goddess”
Lear, 2.4
“We are not ourselves when nature, being oppress’d, commands the mind to suffer with the body”
Edgar, 5.2
“Here father, take the shadow of this tree for your good host”
Gloucester, 1.2
“these late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us”
Lear, 1.1 [to daughters, on love test]
“where nature doth with merit a challenge”
Lear, 1.1
“A wretch whom nature is ashamed”
What words appear 40+ times?
“Nature” “natural” “unnatural”
Hooven
“Death is neither punishment nor reward: it is simply the nature of things”
Bradley [on the storm on the heath]
“Nature herself joins with the forces of evil in man to overpower the weak”
John F. Dannby [Historicist reading]
Argues that Lear dramatizes the meaning of nature, reflecting a debate about what nature was really like in Shakespeare’s time.
