King Lear Critic Quotes

Kermode- The voices of the ... are ... by ...

The voices of the good are distorted by pain.

O'Toole- The ending of the play is in a sense a ... ending. We have already had a ..., ... ending the one provided by the single ... of Edgar and Edmund. In this fight, ... beats ....

The ending of the play is in a sense a second ending. We have already had a conventional, moral ending the one provided by the single combat of Edgar and Edmund. In this fight, good beats evil.

O'Toole- The traditional ... of loyalty, of knowing one's ... and ... it, is no longer of much ....

The traditional morality of loyalty, of knowing one's place and keeping it, is no longer of much use.

Bradley- Throughout that ... third act, the good are seen growing ... through ... and the bad ... through ...

Throughout that stupendous third act, the good are seen growing better through suffering and the bad worse through success.

Bradley- His ... produces a sense of ... of the ... of man, and of the ...- perhaps the ...-of ... or Fate.

His fall produces a sense of contrast of the powerlessness of man, and of the omnipotence- perhaps the caprice-of Fortune or Fate.

Bruce- ... are always ... in Renaissance drama

Bastards are always rotten in Renaissance drama.

Bruce- If he did not keep ... into ..., the tragedy would never have ...

If he did not keep flying into rages, the tragedy would never have happened.

Bruce- Edmund ... against the Law of ...

Edmund rages against the Law of Primogeniture

Rutter- They now assume the ... voice; the male ... Lear ...

They now assume the male voice; the male space Lear abandons

Rutter- Women .... They curse because they can't ...

Women curse. They curse because they can't act.

Rutter- The play makes the ... ugly. The two who ... are ... and the one who does not is ...

The play makes the daughters ugly. The two who speak are monsters and the one who does not is monstered.

Rutter- Lear ... himself when he fell to ...

Lear unmanned himself when he fell to cursing.

Rutter- At the ... there is a [grotesque] recollection of the ...

At the end there is a [grotesque] recollection of the pieta.

Bamber- Cordelia's ... is maintained by her ...

Cordelia's perfection is maintained by her silence.

Bamber- ... women risk losing our ...

Angry women risk losing our sympathy

Bamber- The sisters range from ... end to the ... of human ... behaviour.

The sisters range from one end to the other of human moral behaviour.

Mack- ... often seems to be a form of ... punishment but also brings with it special ...

Madness often seems to be a form of divine punishment but also brings with it special insight

Mack- Those whom ... wishes to ..., he first drives ...

Those whom Jupiter wishes to destroy, he first drives mad.

Nuttall- If we were all ..., there would perhaps be no ...

If we were all wicked, there would perhaps be no problem

Nuttall- Suffering and death are perceived as matter for ... and ..., after which it seems that grief and fear become in their turn matter for ...

Suffering and death are perceived as matter for grief and fear, after which it seems that grief and fear become in their turn matter for enjoyment.

Kastan- Tragedy is the ... of uncompensated ...

Tragedy is the genre of uncompensated suffering