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KING LEAR CRITICISM
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- 1MADNESS - AO3 Hal Holbrook Coppelia Kahn Sam Mendes productionHolbrook - 'The paranoia of age is stalking him'
'The fool is an intellectual'
'Gloucester has been a blind fool'
Coppelia Kahn - 'Lear goes mad because he's unable to accept his dependence on the feminine, his daughters'
Sam Mendes production - 'suspiciously similar to Lew body dementia' - 2SUFFERING Jan Kott Luke WaltersKott- concluded that KL is about the hollowness of the human condition. 'The Fool knows that the only true madness is to recognise this world as rational'
Walters - 'Edgar constructs an alternative world from noting but his imagination for the sole purpose of healing his father' - 3RELIGION Greenblat WorrallGreenblat - 'The characters appeal to the pagan Gods' but the Gods are silent and nothing answers to human questions.
Worrall - 'Kent is contrasting to the emptiness of suicide... with the God-guided life of biblical promise' - 4MISOGYNY McLuskie O'MahoneyMcLuskie - 'Women are made to submit or must be destroyed'
O'Mahoney - Regan and Goneril's 'downfall is ultimately and inevitably over a man' 'Goneril's suicide and damnation is viewed as a punishment from God' - 5ROLE OF WOMEN McLuskie HudsonMcLuskie- sees KL as an anti-feminine play. The misogyny of the play is constructed from ascetic tradition, which presents women as the source of sin and lust.
Hudson - Regan and Goneril are 'personifications of ingratitude' - 6POWER Worrall Tennenhouse Susan BruceWorrall - Edgar is 'prepared to forgo the artistocratic status secured by his legitimacy' 'Edgar has seen the worst of human degredation'
Tennenhouse - thinks KL shows 'dangers of not following the old ways' of patriarchal hierarchy.
Bruce - views Edmund as a character who challenges the old order 'attempting to usher in a meritocratic society'
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