A03 King Lear (DOUBLE WEIGHTED !!!)

Robert Crowley (15150)

‘‘First walk in thy vocation and do not seek thy lot to chnage’’

How did Elizabethens and Jacobeans feel about the shifting social classes and people moving into the upper class

• Threy were highly suspicious of social movement - pushy ambition was seen as a deadly sin

What is one tof the key concepts that are essential in king lear

The tension between the old and new world - Feudal VS early modern Britain

What was the relation between family and state in Jaobean England ?

• The family was ofn seen as a microcosm of the state

• Chldren were expected to have absoloute deference to theirparrents , having t kneel down to parentd every time they come in

• Shakeseare , through the love test shows these expectations up as a flawed expectation.

How does the arcs of renaissance plays linl to the love test ?

This is a renaissance play and the renaissance was a yimr of questioninh and rethinking ideas about old absoloutes