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King Lear Critics AO3
Cards in this deck (15)
- 1'Lear's words are monstrously unjust.'A.C Bradley
- 2'It is interesting that there is no literal mother in King Lear.'Coppelia Kahn
- 3'We rejoice at the death of the bastard and the two sisters.'Charles Gildon
- 4'[Edmund] Has still a share in being; his most destructive actions do not entirely snuff it out.'Robert West
- 5'Inhumane sisters'Thorndike
- 6'The horror of Lear's story is the unnatural behaviour of Goneril and Regan'Helen Norris
- 7'The coils of evil spread and fester in the subplot of the play.'Hal Holbrook
- 8'The paranoia of age is stalking Lear.'Hal Holbrook
- 9'Gloucester has been a blind fool.'Hal Holbrook
- 10'A play in which wicked prosper and the virtuous miscarry.'Johnson
- 11'In his clothes the King is equal to a beggar.'Sun
- 12'Bastards are always rotten'A.C Bradley
- 13'Naturally, bastards betray.''Lucifer and the Lord.'
- 14'When women are tough and ballsy, and just as obsessed with power as men, they are called evil.'Martha Burns
- 15'Edmund is the most dangerous and treacherous of the characters.'Paul W. Kahn
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- B English literature Flashcards on King Lear Critics AO3, created by Lily Packer on 15/05/2016.
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