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King Lear
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- 1I am a very foolish, fond old manshows humility - etymology 'foolish and fond': Anglo-Saxon, not latinate
- 2hamartiaLear's fatal flaw
- 3The bond cracked 'twixt father and sonGloucester
- 4Lear emerges as a man of 'humble courtesy'Germaine Greer
- 5Gloucester's torture represents a 'biblical parable'Jan Kott
- 6Come on, my boy. How dost, my boy? Art cold?filial compassionate bond between L and the Fool
- 7Lear is a vehicle for a 'radical social critique' - compare compassion of Lear to irresponsible James IPaul Delany
- 8Look there, look thereFolio ending
- 9Nothing will come of nothingL
- 10I want that glib and oily art / to speak and purpose notCordelia
- 11Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hidesCordelia
- 12Yet he hath ever but slenderly known himselfRegan
- 13These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good for usGloucester
- 14As if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsionEdmund
- 15Old fools are babes againGoneril
- 16Nothing almost sees miracles / But miseryKent
- 17Edgar I nothing amE
- 18O reason not the need! Our basest beggars are in the poorest things superfluous.Lear
- 19The younger rises when the old doth fallEdmund
- 20Thou shalt find a dearer father in my loveCornwall to Edmund
- 21It is the stars / The stars above us govern our conditionKent
- 22O, thou side-piercing sight!Edgar
- 23O ruined piece of nature! This great world shall come to naught.Gloucester
- 24You must bear with me. Pray you now, forget and forgive.Lear
- 25Is this the promised end?Kent
'promised' - predetermined nature - 26We two alone will sing like birds in the cageLear
- 27O, let him pass! He hates him that would upon the rack of this tough world stretch him out longerKent
-shows L's death can be seen as redemptive (A.C. Bradley) - 28O dear father, it is thy business I go aboutEchoes Luke 2:49 ‘I must go about my father’s business’ – parallel between Cordelia and Christ
- 29What shall Cordelia speak? Love, and be silentparallels Christ’s silence at his trial before the Sanhedrin
- 30No blown ambition doth our arms incite / But love, dear love, and our aged father’s rightnot ‘our’ as in royal we, but ‘our’ as in heavenly father – father of all mankind
- 31You have begot me, bred me, loved meCordelia
- 32I’ll kneel down and ask of thee forgivenessLear
Protestant doctrine under Elizabeth – importance of forgiveness - 33When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of foolsLear
Nihilism; Absurdism (Jan Kott) - 34So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enoughGoucester
Advocating redistribution of wealth - Marxist reading - 35In boy, go first. You houseless poverty … Poor naked wretches … How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides … defend you from seasons such as these? O, I have ta’en too little care of this. Take physic, pomp, … that thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just’Lear is experiencing transcendence into altruism, and espousing socialist ideals
- 36Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician seem to see the things thou dost notLear
- 37When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down and ask of thee forgivenessLear
- 38The dark and vicious place where thee he got Cost him his eyesEdgar, referring to the female womb as 'the dark and vicious place'
- 39predestination mocked in Macbeth also written in 1606Macbeth's fate presaged by the witches at the start
- 40I have a journey, sir, shortly to go; my master calls me, I must not say noKent
- 41The offices of nature, bond of childhood/ Effects of courtesy, dues of gratitudeLear reminding Regan of the MUTUAL OBLIGATION - FILIAL DUTY - WHICH SHE LATER BREAKS
- 42Albany attributes the deaths of R and G to the 'judgement of the heavens' implies there is a Christian justice in the playAlbany
- 43Lear invokes 'the stored vengeance of heaven' to fall on Goneril's 'ingrateful head'.Lear
- 44Cordelia's tears like 'holy water' shaken 'from her heavenly eyes'Said by a Gentleman describing Cordelia's reaction to reading of her father's plight
- 45Thou hast one daughter who redeems nature from the general curse which twain have brought her toSaid by gentleman to Lear. Mirrors Christ redeeming man's original sin brought about by twain of Adam and Eve
- 46I will not weepLear
- 47I will do such things - what they are yet I know notL
- 48obey you, love you and most honour you - like marriage pledgeCordelia
- 49I pray you father, being weak, seem soRegan
note spondee - 50come not between the dragon and his wrathL
- 51The bow is bent; make from the shaftL
- 52the gods are just and of our pleasant vices make instruments to plague usEdgar
- 53Edgar takes on 'the basest and most poorest shape' like Jesus' incarnationdouble superlative - most poorest
- 54edgar to G: 'bear free and patient thoughts' - echoes Book of Job on patienceE
- 55One day we were born, one day we shall dieEdgar - stoic? nihilist?
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