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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... daughters as 'unnatural hags' when they show their true faces. Natural quite clearly means social, or customary, a convention that Edmund ironically exposes through his scheming. When Cornwall praises Edmund as a 'Loyal and natural boy ...
... daughter becomes the most hated, banished for speaking truth. A father becomes like a 'babe again', taught lessons by his daughters. A monarch becomes a mendicant, replacing his golden crown with one of flowers. He gains insight in his ...
... daughter. But can the stars really be blamed for human actions and their ruinous consequences? His son Edmund thinks not: This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune ... we make guilty of our disasters ...
... daughters as 'unnatural hags' when they show their true faces. Natural quite clearly means social, or customary, a convention that Edmund ironically exposes through his scheming. When Cornwall praises Edmund as a 'Loyal and natural boy ...
... daughter might taste the bitterness of sibling rivalry and exclusion; or the perceived ingratitude of their offspring. The main precipitating crisis of the drama is a younger generation ignoring a debt of obligation xii INTRODUCTION.