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how does the setting shift? it now takes place on the island of cyprus Why is Desdemona worried about Othello Becasue Othello is leaving Cyprus to go fight on his ship Do Iago and Rodrigo really think that Cassio and…

George Orwell Edgar is a superfluous character Leo Tolstoy A tedious nuisance Nahum Tate The ending was too misfortunate and cruel Gillian Woods His unexplained absence is appropriate since he exists outside the proper order of things Leo Tolstoy Lear’s…

who is gloucester? who’s kent? kent = my lord “but i have, sir, a son by order of law, some year older than this, who yet is no dearer in my account. though this knave came something suacily to the…

1 Glister introduced his son Kent. King Lear divides his kingdom into three parts. Burgen scorns Cordelia and marries her anyway. 2 Not to inherit, base on circumstance of his birth. Sent letter to trick his father Gloucester into thinking…

Identity and disguise in King Lear -Different ways of disguise.- Kent and Edgar LITERALLY disguise themselves- Regan and Gonerill have disguises when they claim they love Lear during the love test. Hyperbolic language and verse is used to disguise their…

What does Edmund give the captain at the beginning of act V scene 3? a note How is Gloucester saved from harm in Act V, Scene 2? Edgar leads him under a tree Who says the following: “And my poor…

What does Edgar mean when he says “the worst is not so long as we can say ‘this is the worst’”? Edgar expresses his belief that as long as a man can think that his fortunes are at their lowest…

“O strange and fastened villain!” [Gloucester] Gl is easily turned against his son, he goes from being his favourite to a ‘villain’. Court is fickle? Fall in and out of favour so easily “I will preserve myself” Soliloquy – isolated…

Edgar gives Albany which letter? The one he took from Oswald’s body. When Lear dies, who is now in charge of the kingdom? Kent and Edgar How does Gloucester die? After hearing the news of ‘Poor Tom’s’ real identity, his…

Lear either thinks that he is wise as he frequently refers to himself as old, or he is starting to realise that he is old but has not had the wisdom that goes with it, suggested by the word “shouldst”…