AO3 Flashcards
Who directed the 2016 Richmond Theatre production?
Max Webster
Who directed the 2015 National Theatre production?
Sam Mendes
Who directed the 1971 film version?
Peter Brooks
Which version portrays Lear as having dementia?
The National Theatre production directed by Sam Mendes
Edmund “embodies an attractive, convention-shattering energy which is hard to resist…
speaks on behalf of those whom his society wishes to silence and marginalise” - Raman Selden
Edmund “reveals in his soliloquy
thoroughgoing malevolence”
- Waldo McNeir
“The daughters actually
use the political power he cedes to them” - Cathy Cupitt
Thorndike describes them as
“inhuman sisters”
“The horror of Lear’s story is
the unnatural behaviour of Goneril and Regan” - Helen Norris
“Lear’s words are
monstrously unjust” - Koskinen
“Female characters are either
sanctified or demonised”
- Kathleen McLuskie
“The fundamental paradox is that the woman is required
to speak to prove her virtue, yet to speak is to negate virtuousness.” - Lisa Jardine
“a connection between sexual subordination and anarchy …
presents women as the source of the primal sin of lust” - Kathleen McLuskie
Kent “represents the kind of loyalty
that transcends circumstances” - Philip Allan
