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divine right of kings
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Reflecting Jacobean ideas of kingship and divine order
2
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patriarchy and gender roles
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In Shakespeare’s society, female obedience and submission was paramount
3
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religion
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Elizabethan audiences would have accepted suffering to be a test from God
4
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Filial duty
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The expectation of filial loyalty in Jacobean society underscores and exaggerates Lear’s sense of betrayal
5
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political security
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Lear’s failure reflects anxieties about security in Jacobean England
6
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illegitimacy
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Edmund’s ambition challenges the accepted social order
7
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What does King Lear articulate?
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pressing contemporary concerns about the power of kings
8
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A
Lear
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