King Lear Critics by Shannon Smith-Whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/jgpn4wq8kbrd en-us 2017-05-25 17:48:56 UTC 2017-05-25 18:15:02 UTC hello@padlet.com DJ Enright shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/jgpn4wq8kbrd/wish/173876343 -       Principal of a character are not those who act but those who suffer
-       Lear, Gloucester, Cordelia and Edgar
]]> 2017-05-25 17:50:38 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/jgpn4wq8kbrd/wish/173876343 Harold Bloom shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/jgpn4wq8kbrd/wish/173876512 -       Descent from Monarch to ‘unaccommodated man’ coveys most potently man’s fragility, fallibility (make mistakes) and fatality
-       Edmund and Lear never address a single word to each other. Both antitheses of one another Lear all feeling showing his opinions and emotions and Edmund is portrayed as bare of all affect.
]]> 2017-05-25 17:51:30 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/jgpn4wq8kbrd/wish/173876512 Rutter shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/jgpn4wq8kbrd/wish/173876562 “His tears of impotent rage are indeed the sign of the female”- Rutter
Lear has lost his voice whilst in the process of loss of power. 
]]> 2017-05-25 17:51:51 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/jgpn4wq8kbrd/wish/173876562 Kermode shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/jgpn4wq8kbrd/wish/173876792 “At the end, the punishment or relief of death is indiscriminate”
Death varies towards character and how they receive it (some oppose and some accept) 
]]> 2017-05-25 17:53:14 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/jgpn4wq8kbrd/wish/173876792 Nahum Tarte's 1638 edit shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/jgpn4wq8kbrd/wish/173876882 “Dr Johnson decided not to read the play again until he resolved to edit it 20 years later, to make it for more satisfactory in which Cordelia survives.” ]]> 2017-05-25 17:53:50 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/jgpn4wq8kbrd/wish/173876882 Rutter shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/jgpn4wq8kbrd/wish/173876973 “Then the play makes the daughters ugly: the two who speak are monsters, the one who does not is monstered.”
The power of speech and silence of speaking
 
]]> 2017-05-25 17:54:20 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/jgpn4wq8kbrd/wish/173876973 Rutter shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/jgpn4wq8kbrd/wish/173877212 “The opposition between speech and silence that the play always constructs as an opposition between mouth and heart”
Love test image (speech) over reality (silence ]]> 2017-05-25 17:55:34 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/jgpn4wq8kbrd/wish/173877212 Rutter shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/jgpn4wq8kbrd/wish/173877345 “The two who speak are monsters”
Women perceived differently as they spoke out but at that time women didn’t speak out. 
]]> 2017-05-25 17:56:16 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/jgpn4wq8kbrd/wish/173877345 Jonathon Dollimore shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/jgpn4wq8kbrd/wish/173877426 “Human values are not antecedent to these material realities, but are on the contrary in-formed by them”
Don’t exist before material realities, values of society constructed to maintain wealth and property to maintain natural order.
Edmund ‘unnatural’ and not from God chain of being socially constructed 
]]> 2017-05-25 17:56:47 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/jgpn4wq8kbrd/wish/173877426 Kermode shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/jgpn4wq8kbrd/wish/173877601 “Cordelia does not come of the archaic and artificial contest well, defeated by the genuineness of her love, but she is far from passively yielding.”
Using genuineness as a weapon? ]]> 2017-05-25 17:57:46 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/jgpn4wq8kbrd/wish/173877601 Rutter shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/jgpn4wq8kbrd/wish/173877831 “Lear knows his tears make a women of him.” 
Power shakes his mind, blamed for power, unmanned himself (feminised by his tears)
]]> 2017-05-25 17:58:36 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/jgpn4wq8kbrd/wish/173877831 Rutter shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/jgpn4wq8kbrd/wish/173877902 “Cursing is the language of political exclusion.”
Only women that cursed as they cannot act upon this. Lear is portrayed as feminised suggesting loss of power and daughters rising above him
]]> 2017-05-25 17:58:57 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/jgpn4wq8kbrd/wish/173877902 Maynard Mack shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/jgpn4wq8kbrd/wish/173877973 “Shakespeare’s heroes are associated with this disease.”- ]]> 2017-05-25 17:59:22 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/jgpn4wq8kbrd/wish/173877973 Goethe shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/jgpn4wq8kbrd/wish/173878448 "Every old man is a King Lear"
Suggesting beneath the extreme events of the play we will find life experiences common to everyone.]]> 2017-05-25 18:02:01 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/jgpn4wq8kbrd/wish/173878448 R.A Foakes shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/jgpn4wq8kbrd/wish/173878681 In his book Hamlet Versus Lear 1993 argues, "we are likely to see King Lear as Shakespeare greatest tragedy as it chimes the anxiety and pessimism which world events have made common over the last century." ]]> 2017-05-25 18:03:12 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/jgpn4wq8kbrd/wish/173878681 David Scott Kastan shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/jgpn4wq8kbrd/wish/173879464 "Shakespeare's tragedies offer us 'emotional truth' not answers to philosophical questions about the origins and meanings of suffering." ]]> 2017-05-25 18:06:36 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/jgpn4wq8kbrd/wish/173879464 Charles Lamb shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/jgpn4wq8kbrd/wish/173880267 Believed the part of King Lear could not be brought fully to life in the theatre in 1811. 
 "an old man tottering about the stage with a walking stick" was inadequate to the great and complex vision created by Shakespeare.  ]]> 2017-05-25 18:10:45 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/jgpn4wq8kbrd/wish/173880267 Valerie Traub (Feminist) shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/jgpn4wq8kbrd/wish/173880902 "The feisty Cordelia in Act 1 is later replaced by a figure who offers a complete capitulation to sexist norms, subservient and forgiving to the father who rejected her."]]> 2017-05-25 18:13:27 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/jgpn4wq8kbrd/wish/173880902