King Lear Critics Quiz

This box is completely useless as I made this quiz for my own revision purposes so hi. You look great today, good luck if you have an exam. King Lear's a good play, though annoying.

They knew I tried to copy and paste this paragraph. They also used dashes to censor the word for illegitimate people in the 17th century. Because apparently historical accuracy aint important.

Created by: Tired Student
  1. Gonerill and Regan 'offer a modern-sounding contempt for the hierarchical principle'
  2. The play presents 'a connection between sexual insubordination and anarchy, and the connection is given an explicitly misogynistic emphasis'
  3. Gonerill and Regan are 'wholly removed from the realm of human sympathy - as Edmund never is'
  4. 'The threefold dignity of a king, an old man and a father is dishonoured by the cruel ingratitude of his unnatural daughters'
  5. 'Gonerill's 'all' and Regan's 'more' can only be trumped by Cordelia's 'nothing''
  6. All the essential elements of King Lear 'depend on an audience accepting an equation between 'human nature' and male power'
  7. 'Edgar, an unmarried son' and 'Albany, a widower' contribute to the 'sterility of the final tableau'
  8. 'The various roles [Edgar] plays are the means by which he matures into royalty'
  9. Edgar's 'various roles do not tell us more about Edgar. They tell us more about the play in which he is a character.'
  10. 'Tom is a richer character than Edgar because he includes Edgar, whereas Edgar doesn't include Tom. Edgar is not changed by being Tom.'
  11. 'A brother throws over his shoulder the body of a brother he has killed. This is all there is. There will not be another king. The stage remains empty. Like the world.'
  12. 'Edmond is clearly a villain, whatever our standards...[yet] he is by far the most attractive character we meet'
  13. 'The disadvantages suffered by b------s in the 17th century...were similar to those endured by women, their fellow representative of the 'other''
  14. Edmond is 'the private enterprise man'
  15. Cordelia's death is 'the most gratuitous act of cruelty in the play'
  16. 'Cordelia, who challenges her father's use of absolute power, retains the audience's sympathy in doing so. To read the play as unequivocally partriachalist is to read against the grain'
  17. 'Cordelia disrupts Lear's plan precisely because her love is so inconveniently genuine - it makes a claim on him he cannot pay for in land'
  18. 'It is [Lear's] rash haste... his blindness to everything...that enforces our pity for him'
  19. 'After surviving so many sufferings, Lear can only die' for if he survives, 'the whole loses its significance'
  20. 'It is the story of how a king becomes a man'
  21. 'Truth becomes a simple inversion of whatever Lear affirms'
  22. 'The image we first present is a priest-like king...in losing his faith he's discovered humanity'

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