KING LEAR
by William Shakespeare

Testable A-Question Topics

Narcissism

Power

Betrayal

Edmund

Siblings

Edgar

Critics

Karim-Cooper Comedy

Kanzer is sick --> incest

Kneel on Nealson - Sparknotes

Lenhoff & Leffler Love the Lord

Clody Coyote (Animals)

Productions

Royal Shakespeare Company Production (2016)

Globe Stage Theater Production (2017)

Historical Context

early 17th century

early 1600s

King James I --> Jacobean era

nobility --> social hierarchy

legitimacy/bastardy

Duels -->common practices

Catherine Dunn DUNN DUNN DUNN - storm

Methods

Shifting between blank verse and prose

Shared lines

Implied stage action

Letters

Storm
(pathetic fallacy)

Soliloquys and asides

Animal metaphors

Foreshadowing/suspense building

Emdashes --> shifts direction of dialogue

Theories

Music

Comic relief

Pride

Bloomingdale & Satoris --> Essays

"gilded serpent"

Quotes

Dramatic Irony

Quotes