King LearPan Macmillan, 2016 M08 11 - 208 pages In Shakespeare's thrilling and hugely influential tragedy, ageing King Lear makes a capricious decision to divide his realm between his three daughters according to the love they express for him. |
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... Edgar an 'Unnatural, detested, brutish villain' for supposedly challenging his paternal authority. Lear does the same repeatedly. He dismisses Cordelia as 'a wretch whom nature is asham'd / Almost to acknowledge hers' for refusing to ...
... Edgar, who blithely delivers the play's new moral in its closing lines: '(Whatever Storms of Fortune are decreed) / That Truth and Virtue shall at last succeed'. Thus for a hundred and fifty years playgoers were served the poetic ...
... Edgar an 'Unnatural, detested, brutish villain' for supposedly challenging his paternal authority. Lear does the same repeatedly. He dismisses Cordelia as 'a wretch whom nature is asham'd / Almost to acknowledge hers' for refusing to ...
... Edgar spells this out when he observes: 'when we our betters see bearing our woes / We scarcely think our miseries our foes'. Yet Shakespeare appears to go beyond such conventional thinking with a masterly inversion of rules and roles ...
... Edgar's enumeration of roles he has played in life as Poor Tom: 'hog in sloth, fox in stealth, wolf in greediness, dog in madness, lion in prey'. The nature it is suggested we are akin to is red in tooth and claw. Where 'Humanity must ...