Tragedy Flashcards by J C

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Dr Samuel Johnson

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Gloucester’s blinding scene is “one of the most painful in all English theatre”

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George Bernard Shaw

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“No man will ever write a better tragedy than Lear”

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Jan Kott

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“All that remains at the end of this gigantic pantomime is the earth, empty and bleeding”

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Samuel Johnson

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“There is no scene which does not add to the aggravation or distress”

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Samuel Johnson

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“A play in which the wicked prosper and the virtuous miscarry”

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D. J. Enright

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“The principal characters are not those who act but those who suffer”

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