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Arnold Kettle-society -in King Lear, Shakespeare reveals from the start a society in turmoil Frank Kermode-crafty – Lear is the craftiest as well as the most tremendous of the Shakespeare tragedies Samuel Johnson-G’s eyes bit the extrusion of Gloucester’s eyes…

“I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall.” KentSpeculating how Lear plays favorites “His breeding, sir, hath been at my charge. I have so often blushed to acknowledge him that now I am brazed to’t.”…

Meantime we shall express our darker purpose.—Give me the map there.—Know that we have dividedIn three our kingdom, and ’tis our fast intentTo shake all cares and business from our age,Conferring them on younger strengths while weUnburdened crawl toward death.—Our…

“tis the time’s plague, when madmen lead the blind” emphasises the chaotic nature of the kingdom “as flies to wanton boys are we to the gods: they kill us for their sport” conveys the powerlessness of the characters “my old…

3 ways suffering is presented within King Lear? -Lear’s suffering-Gloucester’s suffering-Undeserved Suffering through Kent and Edgar How is Lear’s suffering shown? Through his daughters rejection Quote for Lear’s suffering? ‘a disease that’s in my flesh … a boil / A…

Ian Holm King Lear Barbara Flynn Goneril Amanda Redman Regan Victoria Hamilton Cordelia Timothy West Gloucester Finbar Lynch Edmund Paul Rhys Edgar Michael Bryant The Fool David Burke Kent David Lyon Albany Michael Simkins Cornwall Directed By Richard Eyre

I never shall endure her Regan about Goneril – shows that whereas in the beginning they were working together, Edmund has caused a rift in their relationship, she no longer can stand Goneril In honoured love Edmund – how he…

A1.S1 – Kent has the very first line of the play; although arguably a minor character, this stresses his presence in the play “I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall” A1.S1 – Kent’s morality…

men must endureTheir g oing hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all. sp : Edgar sit: to glouc. after the French are defeatedglous. has just said he would stay where he is. “A man may rot even here”…

When Edgar is disguised and pretending to be insane, what name does he use? Tom Gloucester calling Edmund a “loyal and natural boy” is ironic because Edmund is Disloyal, known for being Gloucester’s illegitimate son, and behaving in an unnatural…