Episodes
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An introduction to the Bard
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There are two families in Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear – Goneril, Regan and Cordelia Lear and Edmund and Edgar Gloucester –and their fathers!
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Episodes manquant?
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The Love Test and the word ‘Nothing’. Lear divides his kingdom and abdicates responsibility.
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A look at the language in the play
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Two stories in tandem.
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The Gloucester family storyline – Edgar and Edmund.
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Edmund manipulates Edgar without telling a lie.
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Shakespeare's vision of the world in King Lear is essentially pessimistic. Would you agree. Discuss the view with suitable quotation and reference. (Cog sheet! How to answer a typical exam question interrogated and analysed through introduction, body of answer and conclusion. )
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Edmund in Act 5 Scene 3 in the camp near Dover “This speech of yours hath moved me, And shall perchance do good: but speak you on; You look as you had something more to say.” And Lear in Act 3 Scene 2 “Poor fool and knave, I have one part in my heart that's sorry yet for thee!"
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The value of Nothing - Lear, Kent and role of The Fool as Lear's conscience
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Cog sheet! How to answer a typical exam question interrogated and analysed by introduction, body of answer and conclusion.
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The Journeys of Lear and Gloucester
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Lear in Act 4 Scene 6, The Fool in Act 2 Scene 4, Goneril in Act 5 Scene 1, Lear in Act 3 Scene 2
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The parallels in the families of King Lear and The Earl of Gloucester
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Lear’s daughters Goneril and Regan gang up on Lear
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Lear in Act 4 Scene 7 - I’m a Foolish fond old man … Gloucester in Act 4 Scene 1 - I have no way and therefore want no eyes …. Gloucester in Act 2 Scene 1 - My old heart is cracked, it’s cracked …. Lear in Act 4 Scene 1 - As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods …. Lear in Act 5 Scene 3 never, never, never, never, never.
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The Storm Scene. Lear recognises ‘need” as he moves towards self-realisation.
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In the play, King Lear moves from a position of centrality to one of loneliness and isolation. Discuss. Introduction, body of answer and conclusion. (Cog sheet!)
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The Mock Trial. The metaphor of the Staircase
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