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King Lear Revision
- AO3 Critics
- Kathleen McLuskie
- "The play is inherently misogynistic"
- "The play is inherently misogynistic"
- Coppelia Kahn
- "Lear goes mad
because he is unable to
accept his dependance
on the feminine"
- "Women who grow up
without a mother take on
boystrous tendencies"
[Absent Mother]
- "Lear goes mad
because he is unable to
accept his dependance
on the feminine"
- Dollimore
- "The play is about power,
property and inheritance
- Lear loses power when
he hands over property
and status to his
daughters"
- "The play is about power,
property and inheritance
- Lear loses power when
he hands over property
and status to his
daughters"
- Leonard Tennenhouse
- "Shakespeare shows dangers of
not following patriarchal order"
- "Shakespeare shows dangers of
not following patriarchal order"
- Jan Kott
- "King Lear is a play
about the disintegration
of the world"
- "King Lear is a play
about the disintegration
of the world"
- Hal Holbrook
- "The paranoia of age is
stalking him" [Lear]
- "Lear slips into madness as a direct
result of his refusal to face the
awful truth that has exploded in his
mind"
- "The paranoia of age is
stalking him" [Lear]
- Kathleen McLuskie
- AO4 Context
- Machiavelli
- A cunning,
opportunistic
person
- A cunning,
opportunistic
person
- The Divine Right of Kings
- The monarch is subject to
no earthly authority, rules
directly from God
- The monarch is subject to
no earthly authority, rules
directly from God
- Great Chain of Being
- A concept in which a
religious / social hierachy is
established
- A concept in which a
religious / social hierachy is
established
- Wheel of Fortune
(Rota Fortunae)
- Goddess Fortuna spins
the wheel, changing the
position of people on
the wheel. Whilst some
rise, others fall etc.
- Goddess Fortuna spins
the wheel, changing the
position of people on
the wheel. Whilst some
rise, others fall etc.
- Machiavelli
- Themes
- Fathers, Children and Siblings
- "No, no, no, no. Come, let's away
to prison. We two alone will sing
like birds in a cage"
- "No, no, no, no. Come, let's away
to prison. We two alone will sing
like birds in a cage"
- Authority and Order
- Old Age
- "Old fools are babes again"
- "The Younger rises while the old doth fall"
- "O sir, you are old"
- "Old fools are babes again"
- Fooling and Madness
- "Tis the time's plague
when madmen lead the
blind"
- "Tis the time's plague
when madmen lead the
blind"
- Disintegration, Chaos, Nothingness
- "Nothing will come of nothing" - Lear
- Thou, Nature, art my goddess" - Edmund
- "The worst is not, so long as we can say "This is the worst""
- "Nothing will come of nothing" - Lear
- Blindness and Insight
- "Alack, I have no eyes"
- "A man may see
how this world goes
with no eyes"
- "Alack, I have no eyes"
- Fathers, Children and Siblings
- AO3 Productions
- Helena Kaut-Howson
- Entire play is portrayed
as the hallucination of a
mental patient's mind
- Entire play is portrayed
as the hallucination of a
mental patient's mind
- Nahum Tate
- Changed the text
dramatically, bad were
punished and good were
rewarded
- Changed the text
dramatically, bad were
punished and good were
rewarded
- The Globe Theatre
- Cast Joseph
Marcell as Lear,
first Black Lear
- Cast Joseph
Marcell as Lear,
first Black Lear
- Helena Kaut-Howson
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