1
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ARNOLD KETTLE
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” in king lear shakespeare reveals, from the very start, a society in turmoil’
“ the lear story is deep and complex”
2
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FRANK KERMODE
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king lear is “the craftiest as well as the most tremendous of shakespeares’s tragedies”
3
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NAHUM TATE
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in 1681 felt the ending was too dark and so devised a happier one where lear does not die and edgar and cordelia get married.
4
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JOSEPH WHARTON
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objected to Gloucester’s subplot as being unlikely and distracting and felt his blinding was too horrid to be shown on stage.
also found G and R savagery too diabolical to be credible.
5
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SAMUEL JOHNSON
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“the extrusion of gloucester’s eyes seems an act too horrid to be endured”
6
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CHARLES LAMB
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thought the play was un-actable
7
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LC KNIGHTS
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“exposure is the very essence of king lear”
king lear critics
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