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Renaissance Rediscovery of many Classic texts and the culture of Greece and RomeDiscovery of America- world a larger and stranger placeSun not earth at centre of our planetary system- challenging centuries-old belief that humans were centre of the universeMachiavelli- politics…

“… e’er since thou mad’st thy daughters thy mothers. For when thou gav’st them the rod, and put’st down thine own breeches.” Act 1, Scene 4Lear has overturned the natural order of things by giving up the throne – given…

France’s explanation of Cordelia’s honesty “Sure her offence, / Must be of such unnatural degree / That monsters it”France Lear’s fault disrupted his relationship with Cordelia “like an engine, wrenched my frame of nature / From the fixed place”Lear Lear’s…

I have so often blushed to acknowledge him Gloucester is ashamed of his bastard child knave bitter and resentful, insensitive – in earshot in the Trevor Nunn version yet was his mother fair, there was good sport at his making…

King Lear He is the King of Britian. He has three daughter Goneril, Regan, and Cordelia. He is blind to the fact that his daughters (Goneril and Reagan) want to get rid of his power. He is a tragic hero…

“Mumbling of wicked charms, conjuring the moon” (75) Edmund to Gloucester.After Edmund stages a fight scene with Edgar, Gloucester comes in and wants to know who the villain is that cut him. Edmund appeals to Gloucester’s superstitions to make sure…

Goneril, Regan, and Cordelia King Lear’s daughters from oldest to youngest are…(write in this format: ______, ______, and ______) Edgar Gloucester’s legitimate son is named…. Goneril, Regan, Edmund The “bad children” are….(write in this format: ______, ______, ______) Cordelia, Edgar…

foreshadows their death shakespeare Lit: If a character sees a ghost: he tells paris that 3 days is too soon but he was willing to wed what is the irony about paris approaching friar lawrence about the wedding? she will…

the nurse is supposed to be gone only a half hour but, she is actually lgone for how long? 3 HOURS how is the nurse behaving that is frusrating to juliet? she is tired and juliet doesn’t want to wait…

Star-crossed lovers Un-lucky in love. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. Your family name does not matter to me. I am fortune’s fool! I am the victim of fate. I see Queen Mab has been with…