Love in Lear

Love in Lear

1. Materialistic

   • France - Cordelia 'is herself a dowry'
   • Goneril's stress on words of valuation - 'dearer' 'rich' 'rare'
     • Introduces idea of senses 'dearer than eyesight'
       • Regan uses 'true' + 'sense'
         • Creature of appetite governed by senses
     • Use of rhymed couplets = formality ringing the importance of their choric function

2. Cordelia

   • Tolstoy argues she refuses to quantify her father 'on purpose to irritate'
     • 'According to my bond, no more nor less'

3. Effect on Edmund

   • Gloucester 'good sport' he enjoyed at his 'making'
   • Coleridge believed that Edmund was outraged by way G spoke of his mother