King Lear Context
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- Created on: 18-05-18 15:05
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- King Lear Context
- Religion
- Pietà - image of Mary carrying Jesus as a parallel of Cordelia and Lear
- Puritan themes from banned Catholicism
- Puritan theme - the Gods and how they rule over everything
- King James IV/monarchy
- King of Scotland, wanted unification
- First time 'British' is used in a Shakespeare play due to unification
- Elizabeth had no children and left the country without an heir
- Era of Spies 'eyes and ears' depicted in portraits of Elizabeth I
- Divine Right of Kings
- King Brutus on dividing the Kingdom - a warning to James
- King James preferred his son Henry over his son Charles
- The Plague in 1606 delayed James' coronation
- King of Scotland, wanted unification
- Madness
- Anne Gunter and throwing up nails - demonic possession > Edgar
- Harsnett's Declaration integrated into the play
- James' obsession with witchcraft
- Literary
- Writing satricial plays at the time could end the playwright in prison e.g. Ben Jonson
- Based of 'King Leir' by Anon
- Shakespeare almost never starts his plays with the protagonist apart from in Richard III
- Links to the Illiad
- Puritan theme - the Gods and how they rule over everything
- 1606
- Wheel of Fortune - circular and who gets what
- Torture and Punishment
- Equivocation - the ambiguity of what we say and what we mean
- Gunpowder plot - Monteagle letter. A group against one person
- End of King Lear sees the destruction of the royal family/death and confusion, as is what was to happen in the Gunpowder Plot
- Eclipses - scary/supernatural/beautiful
- Natural order
- Machiavelli 'the end justifies the means'
- Primogeniture laws - first born gets the inheritance
- Women were the property of their father's and husbands
- Religion
- 1606
- Wheel of Fortune - circular and who gets what
- Torture and Punishment
- Equivocation - the ambiguity of what we say and what we mean
- Gunpowder plot - Monteagle letter. A group against one person
- End of King Lear sees the destruction of the royal family/death and confusion, as is what was to happen in the Gunpowder Plot
- Eclipses - scary/supernatural/beautiful
- Natural order
- Machiavelli 'the end justifies the means'
- Primogeniture laws - first born gets the inheritance
- Women were the property of their father's and husbands
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