King Lear
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- Created on: 06-03-18 18:17
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- King Lear
- Characters
- Lear
- "Which of you shall we say doth love us most" -1.1
- "Most" assumes love is quantifiable
- Assumes love can be worded.
- "Here I disclaim all my parental care.."
- "...propinquity and property of blood" -1.1
- Lear believes everything boils down to materialism
- "...propinquity and property of blood" -1.1
- "I loved her most, and thought to set my rest on her nursery (Cordelia)" -1.1
- He was hoping Cordelia would play the role of the mother during Lear's retirement
- "Which of you shall we say doth love us most" -1.1
- Cordelia
- "Why have my sisters husbands if they say they love you all?"
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- "Why have my sisters husbands if they say they love you all?"
- Goneril
- Edmund
- Is always talked down upon by his father to other people because of illegitimacy
- "Wherefore should I stand in the plague of custom & permit?"
- "I am twelve or fourteen moonshines lag of my brother?"
- "Well then legitimate Edgar" -1.2
- Edgar
- "This country gives me proof and precedent of Bedlam Beggars who with their roaring voices strike in their numbed and mortified arms"
- Taking up the role of a beggar gives Edgar an insight into the lives of the poor and homeless
- Bedlam (Bethleham Hospital) was an asylum at the time Shakespeare wrote King Lear
- "This country gives me proof and precedent of Bedlam Beggars who with their roaring voices strike in their numbed and mortified arms"
- Kent
- Gloucester
- "His breeding sir, hath been at my charge. I have so often blushed to acknowledge him that now I am brazed to 't." - 1.1
- "i have no way and therefore ant no eyes""
- Fool
- "E're since thou mad'st thy daughters thy mothers" -1.4
- Fool points out that ever since Lear gave his daughters power they'd become more like his mother bossing him around.
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- "E're since thou mad'st thy daughters thy mothers" -1.4
- Albany
- Regan
- Lear
- Themes
- Age
- Family
- Play focuses on the relationship between parent & child
- Rightful Order
- Power
- Loyalty
- Society & Class
- Context
- Sir Brian Annesly Lawsuit.
- Had 3 daughters
- Lady Grace Wildgoose
- Her & her husband wrote to Sir Robert Cecil who was an influential member of the courts of both Queen Elizabeth & King James
- Grace asked him to declare Annesly to be a lunatic so they could take control of his estate
- Her & her husband wrote to Sir Robert Cecil who was an influential member of the courts of both Queen Elizabeth & King James
- Cordel
- Annesly's youngest daughter defended Anneslly and succeeded in convincing the court that her father shall not be declared insane.
- Grace asked him to declare Annesly to be a lunatic so they could take control of his estate
- When Annesly died, heleft most of his estate to Cordell
- Annesly's youngest daughter defended Anneslly and succeeded in convincing the court that her father shall not be declared insane.
- Christian
- Lady Grace Wildgoose
- Had 3 daughters
- England at the time
- Bedlam (Bethleham Hospital) was an asylum at the time Shakespeare wrote King Lear
- Sir Brian Annesly Lawsuit.
- Characters
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