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King Lear AO3 quotes
Cards in this deck (26)
- 1Jan Kott"the disintegration of the world"
- 2Johnson"the wicked prosper and the virtuous miscarry"
- 3S Goldberg"There is no supernatural justice - only human natural justice"
- 4Foakes"King Lear... speaks... to the problems and anxieties of the modern world"
- 5Kathleen McLuskie (women)'Women are either made to submit - Cordelia - or must be destroyed - Goneril and Regan"
- 6Peter Erickson"elaborates further the dramatic possibilities of the two versions of women"
- 7John Danby (Cordelia)"She is the virtue Lear wants but cannot recognise"
represents "unity" - 8Zong-Cheng Lui"King Lear... portrays women's desires and eagerness to have power in an androcentric society"
- 9Rose"In dividing his kingdom, Lear has symbolically emasculated himself and turned his two daughters into phallic women"
- 10Simon Estok (women)"Women and the environment are each viciously unpredictable and dangerous"
- 11Simon Estok (Nature)"Nature is coded female"
- 12Hal Holbrook (father)Lear believes "he is a good father, despite all evidence of the contrary"
- 13Hal Holbrook (intellect)"Lear is not a man of conscious intellect"
- 14Hal Holbrook (senility)"The paranoia of age is stalking him"
- 15Nicholas Bonnet"Lear wishes to give up the responsibility of being king, but keep all the benefits. This is another form of greed."
- 16Kathleen McLuskie (familial relationships)"Family relations... are seen as fixed and any movement within them is a destructive reversal of natural order"
- 17Satre ('Lucifer and the Lord')"Naturally bastards betray. What else would they do?"
- 18John Danby (Nature)"a play dramatising the meaning of the single word 'Nature'"
- 19Charles Lamb (We)"...we see not Lear, we are Lear, we are in his mind..."
- 20A.C Bradley'Lear's words are monstrously unjust.'
- 21Coppelia Kahn'It is interesting that there is no literal mother in King Lear.'
- 22Thorndike'Inhumane sisters'
- 23Hal Holbrook Gloucester'Gloucester has been a blind fool.'
- 24Sun'In his clothes the King is equal to a beggar.'
- 25A.C Bradley'Bastards are always rotten'
- 26Paul W. Kahn'Edmund is the most dangerous and treacherous of the characters.'
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- A-Level English literature Flashcards on King Lear AO3 quotes, created by Toni Olukiran on 26/05/2016.
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- Created by imogen.swaffer · May 13, 2016
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