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Christian Lexis: pilgrimage, salvation, damnation Maxwell Christian play about a pagan world The gods remain inscrutable and disinterested in human affairs Peter Brook RSC 1962 showed three outcasts on a bare stage – victims of malignant fate in a hostile…

Context -play written in 1605(between Othello & Macbeth)-ranked with Hamlet as one of the greatest plays-setting dramatizes events from the 18th century BC (far from Shakespeare’s time) -But stories of Lear’s & Gloucester’s sufferings at the hands of their own…

Kastan sees Shakespeare’s tragedies as… Kastan sees Shakespeare’s tragedies as intense treatments of age old questions about whether the causes of suffering lie in human weakness, divine retribution, or arbitrary fate Kastan: idea of tragedy as… Kastan: idea of tragedy…

Paul Scofield King Lear Irene Worth Goneril Susan Engel Regan Anne-Lise Gabold Cordelia Alan Webb Gloucester Ian Hogg Edmund Robert Lloyd Edgar Tom Fleming Kent Jack MacGowran The Fool Patrick Magee Cornwall Cyril Cusack Albany Peter Brook Directed By

If this letter speed, and my invention thrive, Edmund the base shall to th’ legitimate. I grow, I prosper; now, gods, stand up for bastards! Edmund’ plans for the future. He calls on higher powers. It is his hand, my…

Edgar- poor justicer -Arnold Kettle “Lear is a world in which the new people are unprincipled”- whole new generation, including Edgar, do not act with principle of justice- Edgar does not demand justice for himself: Edmund explaining Edgar accusation, dialogue…

What role does Lear have in the play? He’s the protagonist. What is Lear’s basic flaw at the beginning of the play? He values appearances over reality. What does Lear want? To be treated as a king and enjoy the…

In line 10 Kent replies “I cannot conceive you” The definition of the word conceive as it is used in the passage is apprehendExplanationIn answer to Kent’s question about Edmund, Gloucester admits that while he is the young man’s father,…

Lear: Nothing will come of nothing. (Act 1, Scene 1, Line 99) Lear is conducting his “love test” with his three daughters; he wants them to tell him how much they love him, and that will determine how he will…

Two households, both alike in dignity, Two families of the same social status In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, In the beautiful city of Verona is where our story takes place From ancient grudge break to mutiny, From…