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King Lear Critic Quotations
- Frank Kermode
- "Clothes are emblems of pride and wickedness to
natural man."
- "Edmund evokes nature as his
goddess, a goddess who despises
such human, social contrivances as
primogeniture."
- "The play develops a language of folly and
madness, to be heard in counterpart with the
language of evil that remains horribly sane."
- "King Lear is about suffering
represented as a condition of the world
as we inherit it or make it for ourselves."
- "Clothes are emblems of pride and wickedness to
natural man."
- Key
- Clothing
- Nature
- Madness
- Order
- Blindness
- Women
- Family
- Justice
- Clothing
- Sarah Doncaster
- "Shakespeare belonged to a world where
notions of man, his nature and his place in
the universe were an amalgamation of both
Christian and pagan philosophies."
- "in order to overcome any debate on Kingship regarding
legitimacy or efficiency the representation of unity and harmony
between the state and Nature was of paramount importance to
his continued reign."
- "Shakespeare belonged to a world where
notions of man, his nature and his place in
the universe were an amalgamation of both
Christian and pagan philosophies."
- Uncredited
- "Shakespeare develops the theme that
self-knowledge derives from inner
reflection."
- "Shakespeare develops the theme that
self-knowledge derives from inner
reflection."
- Janet Adelman
- "In discovering what he is father to, he
must confront the implications of his
own flawed paternity."
- "[Women] are characterised as monstrous and
increasingly identified as a source of evil, finally
removed from the realm of human sympathy"
- "The storm functions as a place
in which Lear remembers his
origins."
- "In discovering what he is father to, he
must confront the implications of his
own flawed paternity."
- Trevor Nunn
- "When everything in our history
tells us to believe the gods will
intervene on the side of virtue,
Shakespeare says they don't."
- "Shakespeare ... violate[s] ... a
fundamental rule of drama that
plays serve as a moral or cautionary
influence on us, because they show
... that the good will triumph by the
end of the story."
- "When everything in our history
tells us to believe the gods will
intervene on the side of virtue,
Shakespeare says they don't."
- William R Elton
- "[Shatters] the foundations of faith itself."
- "[Shatters] the foundations of faith itself."
- AC Bradley
- "a sense of law and beauty ... and a
consciousness of greatness and pain."
- "a sense of law and beauty ... and a
consciousness of greatness and pain."
- Victor Kiernan
- "Shakespeare leaves us to hope the masses
will stand up for themselves."
- "Shakespeare leaves us to hope the masses
will stand up for themselves."
- Jan Kott
- "all bonds, all laws,
whether divine, natural or
human, are broken ...
social order will crumble
into dust."
- "all bonds, all laws,
whether divine, natural or
human, are broken ...
social order will crumble
into dust."
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