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King Lear AO3 quotes
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- 1Jan Kott"King Lear is about the disintegration of the world"
- 2Samuel Johnson"A play in which the wicked prosper and the virtuous miscarry"
- 3S.L Goldberg"There is no supernatural justice - only human natural justice"
- 4Foakes"King Lear will continue to be the central achievement of Shakespeare, if only because it speaks more largely than the other tragedies to the problems and anxieties of the modern world"
- 5Kathleen McLuskie'Women are either made to submit - Cordelia - or must be destroyed - Goneril and Regan"
- 6Peter Erickson"King Lear elaborates further the dramatic possibilities of the two versions of women"
- 7Thomas Greenfield"When speaking of Cordelia's virtue, critics tend to employ superlatives that are usually reserved for the Bard himself"
- 8John Danby"She is the virtue Lear wants but cannot recognise...the impression she makes is empathetically one of unity"
- 9Zong-Cheng Lui"King Lear...is undeniably one of Shakespeare's tragedies that portrays women's desires and eagerness to have power in an androcentric society"
- 10Rose"In dividing his kingdom, Lear has symbolically emasculated himself and turned his two daughters into phallic women"
- 11Simon Estok"Women and the environment are each viciously unpredictable and dangerous"
- 12Simon Estok"Nature is coded female"
- 13Hal Holbrook"He has clung steadfastly to the conviction that he is a good father, despite all evidence of the contrary"
- 14Hal Holbrook"Lear is not a man of conscious intellect"
- 15Hal Holbrook"The paranoia of age is stalking him"
- 16Nicholas Bonnet"Lear wishes to give up the responsibility of being king, but keep all the benefits. This is another form of greed."
- 17Kathleen McLuskie"Family relations within this play are seen as fixed and determined and any movement within them is portrayed as a destructive reversal of natural order"
- 18Helen Norris"The horror of Lear's story is the unnatural behaviour of Goneril and Regan"
- 19Satre"Naturally bastards betray. What else would they do?"
- 20Kozinstev"Man no longer walks through the rooms and lands of an estate, but through the threatening lands of tragedy"
- 21G. Wilson Knight"[Edmund] obeys Nature's laws of selfishness"
- 22J. Dover Wilson"To Edmund, Nature is a force encouraging the individual to think only of the fulfilment of his own desires"
- 23John Danby"King Lear can be regarded as a play dramatising the meaning of the single word 'Nature'"
- 24John Knox"Women are commanded to be subject to men by the laws of nature"
- 25Cheri Halvorson"Shakespeare uses the beings that his world deems lowly and foolish to destabilise conventional wisdom about class and to subvert the hierarchal expectations of his culture"
- 26Charles Lamb"...we see not Lear, we are Lear, we are in his mind..."
- 27Charles Lamb"Lear is essentially impossible to be represented on stage"
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