Lear Flashcards

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Simon Russel Beale

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Lear as having Lewy Body Dementia.
Doesn’t soliloquise- can’t communicate properly?
One of the only S-p characters that we see make their mistake early on- don’t see the King that Cordelia etc. love.
Sympathy interesting- he is horrible and yet it would be wrong if we didn’t feel sorry for him at the end- sympathy should come from the fact that he is aware that he is ill.

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Heilman

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“The sanity of the mad is that they can understand eternal truths”

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Jan Kott

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“He does not see or understand anything… Lear is ridiculous, naive and stupid”.

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Kenneth Muir

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“Elizabethan dramatists usually used prose for the speech of mad persons… Lear moves in an out of prose, using a form of verse in his more coherent moments.”

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Emily Sun

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“under their clothes, the king is the equal of the beggar”

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Susan Heinzelman

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“what “drives Lear mad” is the “recognition that the injustice he suffers… is the injustice he has already rendered”.

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A.C. Bradley

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“Lear’s fate would appear to us at best pathetic, at worst shocking, but certainly not tragic”.

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