Masculinity

Lear stripped of power and masculinity

• “I gave you all”

• “What need you five-and-twenty, ten or five” G “What need one?” R A2, S4 – stripping masculinity  

Gentleman about Lear’s fragile masculinity

“Strives in his little world of man”

Fool quote about men being led by their sexual desires

“The codpiece that will house/ Before the head has any, / The head and he shall louse;/ So beggars marry many.” Fool A3, S2

Oswald quote promoting phallic violence

“The sword is out that must destroy thee” Oswald A4, S6

Edmund quote about deciding which sister to pick

• “Which of them shall I take? Both? One? Or neither? Neither can be enjoyed if both remain alive” Edmund A5, S1

• – ambitious and arrogance of the new man