THEME Event one: Event two: Event three: Event four: Event five: Event six:
Specious declaration King of France’s Edmund’s lack of Kent is completely The fools’ loyalty to
: of love and loyalty to loyalty to his love for loyalty/ betrayal to loyal to Lear and tries Lear, juxtaposition
LOYALT King Lear by Goneril Cordelia and will do Edgar: Schemes to to help him past his to the knights for
and Regan to gain anything for her to plot his death and blindness and tragic example
Y their share of the marry him, despite a manipulates him to flaw and also
kingdom. lack of dowry; run away: forges disguised himself to
->Juxtaposed with juxtaposition with the letter and death return to the kingdom
G+R and Cordelia’s Duke of Burgundy warrant placed on to serve Lear
full devotion to Lear ->KOF not dependant him
whilst G+R later plot on social status
against him.
Quotations/ “I love you more “Fairest Cordelia… “Edmund the base “Royal Lear, “Nuncle Lear”
Analysis than word can most rich” shall top the honoured as my ->familiar,
wield the matter” ->superlatives: values legitimate” king, loved as my affectionate term
->hyperbolic Cordelia for her ->Use of modal verb father, as my of address
declarations of love integrity and virtue and third person master” ->loyal companion
proven later = ->paradox as she ->juxtaposition used ->Kent intercepts and free will to
specious becomes ‘rich’ after to reveal Edmund’s what Lear is doing speak truth despite
->manipulation & losing something obsession with social ->tripling, social status
imagery “wield”: shows France’s belief hierarchy completeness of ->moral
word play as subtle in absence of wealth ->loyalty challenged Kent’s devotion & commentator, not
foreshadowing as makes her morally by social inequality dominates his identity via obedience but
shows she is to gain rich, lack of ->rejection of ->personal pronoun via honest
power ornamented speech is expected loyalty he “my” Lear is at the guidance
“I am made of that more valuable and should show to a centre of every role of “But I will tarry,
self-metal as my real rightful heir authority in his life -> the fool will stay
sister” “She is herself a “My invention” absolute loyalty let the wise man
->flattery, saying dowry” ->Artificial and ->political allegiance fly”
they she values Lear ->metaphor: becomes successful and personal honour ->dramatic irony:
the same as Goneril unconditional loyalty ->foreshadows “Let it fall rather, audience are aware
->imagery of metal= and admiration destruction though the fork that this loyalty
integrity but there’s ->doesn’t value ->forges a letter to invades the region may be dangerous,
hollowness in her material gain frame Edgar of my heart” but Kent’s loyalty is
claim ->antithesis of DOB & ->deceit & betrayal ->metaphor & noble and virtuous
->debased and Lear and lack of loyalty Imagery of archery & = contrasts with
counterfeit DOB: “I know no ->irony as if it were tries to stop Lear G+R
“If for I want that answer” a position= moral doing something “No labouring in
glib and oily art” ->single line suggests corruption detrimental winter”
->metaphor = incredulity due to a “To thy law, my ->symbol of ->doesn’t need to
, artificial and crafted - lack of dowry services are execution and danger serve Lear
> she is unable to go ->Values bound” of speaking truth = ->Winter
against her nature transactional ->personifies his loyalty requires represents
->rejection of marriages conscience by courage hardship and
manipulative rhetoric ->interest purely addressing it as “thy ->self-sacrificial metaphor for
& moral integrity and financial & lacks law” “If thou canst serve suffering yet is
Lear’s tragic flaw loyalty ->sense of duty where thou dost loyal regardless
->dramatic pause & ->loyal to himself, is stand condemned” ->voluntary
euphemism to show an over Reacher and ->selfless & devoted devotion
refusal of marriage his own human and reckless as he
nature he follows risks his life
->disguised as Caius
->despite banishment
from kingdom
->juxtaposition here
= noble and devoted
Contextual - Young men, like -Stimulated by Good Edmunds is like - In Elizabethan -Fool was
influences George Villious, was King Henry Judas, from the England, loyal stimulated by
arguably one of -Truthfulness was Bible, who pretends service to a Archey Armstrong:
James I sexual valued as a Christian to be loyal to Jesus monarch was a James I favourite
lovers-> called him virtue; vanity and =betrayal highly valued moral fool
his “wife” + pride were deadly -Stimulated by Iago and social ideal. - The Fool is
rewarded with sins from ‘Othello’ - Kent’s loyalty socially low-
Dukedom of Her courage in -Machiavelli’s mirrors Christian status, yet in
Buckingham resisting shows “Prince” virtues: Renaissance
-Elizabeth recognised Shakespeare -Children were Faithfulness drama, fools often
true loyalty like questioning gender stigmatised for - Disguise was a serve as truth-
Cordelia = stimulus roles being bastards = common device in tellers and moral
- Goneril and Regan’s -Elizabeth styled Laws of Elizabethan drama: guides.
rhetorical flattery herself as the “Virgin Primogeniture & used in comedies -Influence of
mirrors this culture of Queen”, refusing society wouldn’t and tragedies to medieval morality
sycophancy, where marriage to maintain allow them to be in explore identity, plays: purpose was
loyalty was often independence and line of succession deception, and didactic & Loyalty
performed rather political control-> -Henry VIII: moral truth. is shown to be
than genuine. Cordelia refuses to illegitimate son, - Written in early principled and
The “love test” turn love into a Duke of Richard and 17thc ethically
echoes the transactional dowry. somerset = couldn’t when kings believed essential
pageantry and ritual -Subversion of the be King in the Divine Right of -Henry VIII
of the Jacobean typical political - The Elizabethan Kings- that monarchs favourite fool; Will
court, where loyalty marriage dynamics of era was heavily were God’s appointed Sommers; even
, and obedience were the time. influenced by rulers, answerable included in family
performed publicly. -Connotations with humanism and only to Him. portraits
-patriarchal the debates about -Kent may be
expectations of -Othello music human nature. This stimulated from Jesus
obedient, submissive reflects who humbled himself
daughters. contemporary and washed feet of
debates on whether disciples
legitimacy and -Elizabeth 1 advisor,
birthright or William Cecil, may
personal talent have stimulated Kent
and cunning = became Lord
determine one’s Burghley
place in society.
Critic views Lear’s tragedy is Cordelia’s marriage to Edmund embodies Kent is the epitome of Frank Kermode
rooted in misjudging France demonstrates the “self-serving loyalty whose emphasizes that
true loyalty where a loyalty based on Machiavellian” who’s devotion involves risk the Fool functions
Cordelia’s love is moral and emotional disloyalty conveys and service as a moral
undervalued yet bonds, rather than the moral and social conscience
Goneril and Regans wealth or social consequences of
flattery is advantage ambition
“performance of
allegiance”
Link to Shakespeare Loyalty here is Loyalty is Loyalty is presented Fool’s loyalty to
question presents Loyalty vs presented to directly highlighted to be to be evident by Kent Lear is similar to
betrayal here that oppose social norms something that is through his ultimate Kent and portrays it
leads to familial in terms of marriage earned, and not loyalty and salience to be as a moral
destruction and traditions -> Loyalty innate of Lear in his mind reminder to Lear
consequences is critiqued in this 24/7 and to help guide
period him and his actions
, THEME: Event one: King Lear; an Event two: Lear Event three: Announces Event five: Juxtaposed Event six: Juxtaposition of
80year old absolute announces division of love test- each of 3 with Cordelia’s asides. + Lear as
KINGSH monarch executes a kingdom; given up all daughters gives a her speech to Lear – king with king of France –
IP hierarchical entry with responsibility but speech expressing how refusing to give perceptive / wise: judges
an authoritative opening expected to keep all much she loves him – flattering speech – Cordelia by her character
speech. principles and title of best speech gets best disowned by Lear. –
Point king share of kingdom. honesty / integrity. Lear
= childish / egotistical overreacts - impulsive.
Violent
Quotations/ 1st impression is through ‘Know that we have G-> “Dearer than eye- ->” (Aside) What “My fair, Cordelia”
Analysis stage directions; he divided in three sight, space and shall Cordelia speak? -Love and respects her
enters first our kingdom’. – horrify liberty” Love and be silent” “She is herself, a
‘Give me the map audience “Sir, I love you more ->disgusted and actions dowry”
there.’ -demands absolute than word can wield speak louder than words ->potent metaphor and
-map represents power, acceptance of his the matter” “I cannot heave”; powerful and comparing
authority, and kingship- decision, as though it is ->Artificial + strong Verb; struggling and her to riches
Lear literally holds the law. declaration of love which alliteration of heavy “Richest…Most loved…
kingdom in his hands. Disowns his daughter – is more important than sounding ‘h’ stresses Most despised”
- By demanding it so ‘thou my sometime freedom Cordelia’s anguish ->superlatives and his
abruptly =Lear daughter’ – rash / ->Hyperbolic flattery of - “Propinquity and love juxtapose Lear’s.
demonstrates the impulsive / not flowery and flattery property of blood” Determined to win
absolutism of royal honourable. ->dishonesty vs integrity ->powerful plosives and Cordelia’s heart
power ->he expects -strips Cordelia of R-> “In your dear disowning her and
immediate obedience. respect and love, highness’ love” removes her dowry
-Used royal plurals “We” reducing her to an ->sycophantic speeches, “thou my sometime
“Our”-> emphasise object of scorn. Shakespeare highlights daughter”
Lear’s majesty and - Calling her Lear’s tragic hamartia: ->reflects injustice and
authority as king and “sometime his vanity makes him absolutism
Specious declaration King of France’s Edmund’s lack of Kent is completely The fools’ loyalty to
: of love and loyalty to loyalty to his love for loyalty/ betrayal to loyal to Lear and tries Lear, juxtaposition
LOYALT King Lear by Goneril Cordelia and will do Edgar: Schemes to to help him past his to the knights for
and Regan to gain anything for her to plot his death and blindness and tragic example
Y their share of the marry him, despite a manipulates him to flaw and also
kingdom. lack of dowry; run away: forges disguised himself to
->Juxtaposed with juxtaposition with the letter and death return to the kingdom
G+R and Cordelia’s Duke of Burgundy warrant placed on to serve Lear
full devotion to Lear ->KOF not dependant him
whilst G+R later plot on social status
against him.
Quotations/ “I love you more “Fairest Cordelia… “Edmund the base “Royal Lear, “Nuncle Lear”
Analysis than word can most rich” shall top the honoured as my ->familiar,
wield the matter” ->superlatives: values legitimate” king, loved as my affectionate term
->hyperbolic Cordelia for her ->Use of modal verb father, as my of address
declarations of love integrity and virtue and third person master” ->loyal companion
proven later = ->paradox as she ->juxtaposition used ->Kent intercepts and free will to
specious becomes ‘rich’ after to reveal Edmund’s what Lear is doing speak truth despite
->manipulation & losing something obsession with social ->tripling, social status
imagery “wield”: shows France’s belief hierarchy completeness of ->moral
word play as subtle in absence of wealth ->loyalty challenged Kent’s devotion & commentator, not
foreshadowing as makes her morally by social inequality dominates his identity via obedience but
shows she is to gain rich, lack of ->rejection of ->personal pronoun via honest
power ornamented speech is expected loyalty he “my” Lear is at the guidance
“I am made of that more valuable and should show to a centre of every role of “But I will tarry,
self-metal as my real rightful heir authority in his life -> the fool will stay
sister” “She is herself a “My invention” absolute loyalty let the wise man
->flattery, saying dowry” ->Artificial and ->political allegiance fly”
they she values Lear ->metaphor: becomes successful and personal honour ->dramatic irony:
the same as Goneril unconditional loyalty ->foreshadows “Let it fall rather, audience are aware
->imagery of metal= and admiration destruction though the fork that this loyalty
integrity but there’s ->doesn’t value ->forges a letter to invades the region may be dangerous,
hollowness in her material gain frame Edgar of my heart” but Kent’s loyalty is
claim ->antithesis of DOB & ->deceit & betrayal ->metaphor & noble and virtuous
->debased and Lear and lack of loyalty Imagery of archery & = contrasts with
counterfeit DOB: “I know no ->irony as if it were tries to stop Lear G+R
“If for I want that answer” a position= moral doing something “No labouring in
glib and oily art” ->single line suggests corruption detrimental winter”
->metaphor = incredulity due to a “To thy law, my ->symbol of ->doesn’t need to
, artificial and crafted - lack of dowry services are execution and danger serve Lear
> she is unable to go ->Values bound” of speaking truth = ->Winter
against her nature transactional ->personifies his loyalty requires represents
->rejection of marriages conscience by courage hardship and
manipulative rhetoric ->interest purely addressing it as “thy ->self-sacrificial metaphor for
& moral integrity and financial & lacks law” “If thou canst serve suffering yet is
Lear’s tragic flaw loyalty ->sense of duty where thou dost loyal regardless
->dramatic pause & ->loyal to himself, is stand condemned” ->voluntary
euphemism to show an over Reacher and ->selfless & devoted devotion
refusal of marriage his own human and reckless as he
nature he follows risks his life
->disguised as Caius
->despite banishment
from kingdom
->juxtaposition here
= noble and devoted
Contextual - Young men, like -Stimulated by Good Edmunds is like - In Elizabethan -Fool was
influences George Villious, was King Henry Judas, from the England, loyal stimulated by
arguably one of -Truthfulness was Bible, who pretends service to a Archey Armstrong:
James I sexual valued as a Christian to be loyal to Jesus monarch was a James I favourite
lovers-> called him virtue; vanity and =betrayal highly valued moral fool
his “wife” + pride were deadly -Stimulated by Iago and social ideal. - The Fool is
rewarded with sins from ‘Othello’ - Kent’s loyalty socially low-
Dukedom of Her courage in -Machiavelli’s mirrors Christian status, yet in
Buckingham resisting shows “Prince” virtues: Renaissance
-Elizabeth recognised Shakespeare -Children were Faithfulness drama, fools often
true loyalty like questioning gender stigmatised for - Disguise was a serve as truth-
Cordelia = stimulus roles being bastards = common device in tellers and moral
- Goneril and Regan’s -Elizabeth styled Laws of Elizabethan drama: guides.
rhetorical flattery herself as the “Virgin Primogeniture & used in comedies -Influence of
mirrors this culture of Queen”, refusing society wouldn’t and tragedies to medieval morality
sycophancy, where marriage to maintain allow them to be in explore identity, plays: purpose was
loyalty was often independence and line of succession deception, and didactic & Loyalty
performed rather political control-> -Henry VIII: moral truth. is shown to be
than genuine. Cordelia refuses to illegitimate son, - Written in early principled and
The “love test” turn love into a Duke of Richard and 17thc ethically
echoes the transactional dowry. somerset = couldn’t when kings believed essential
pageantry and ritual -Subversion of the be King in the Divine Right of -Henry VIII
of the Jacobean typical political - The Elizabethan Kings- that monarchs favourite fool; Will
court, where loyalty marriage dynamics of era was heavily were God’s appointed Sommers; even
, and obedience were the time. influenced by rulers, answerable included in family
performed publicly. -Connotations with humanism and only to Him. portraits
-patriarchal the debates about -Kent may be
expectations of -Othello music human nature. This stimulated from Jesus
obedient, submissive reflects who humbled himself
daughters. contemporary and washed feet of
debates on whether disciples
legitimacy and -Elizabeth 1 advisor,
birthright or William Cecil, may
personal talent have stimulated Kent
and cunning = became Lord
determine one’s Burghley
place in society.
Critic views Lear’s tragedy is Cordelia’s marriage to Edmund embodies Kent is the epitome of Frank Kermode
rooted in misjudging France demonstrates the “self-serving loyalty whose emphasizes that
true loyalty where a loyalty based on Machiavellian” who’s devotion involves risk the Fool functions
Cordelia’s love is moral and emotional disloyalty conveys and service as a moral
undervalued yet bonds, rather than the moral and social conscience
Goneril and Regans wealth or social consequences of
flattery is advantage ambition
“performance of
allegiance”
Link to Shakespeare Loyalty here is Loyalty is Loyalty is presented Fool’s loyalty to
question presents Loyalty vs presented to directly highlighted to be to be evident by Kent Lear is similar to
betrayal here that oppose social norms something that is through his ultimate Kent and portrays it
leads to familial in terms of marriage earned, and not loyalty and salience to be as a moral
destruction and traditions -> Loyalty innate of Lear in his mind reminder to Lear
consequences is critiqued in this 24/7 and to help guide
period him and his actions
, THEME: Event one: King Lear; an Event two: Lear Event three: Announces Event five: Juxtaposed Event six: Juxtaposition of
80year old absolute announces division of love test- each of 3 with Cordelia’s asides. + Lear as
KINGSH monarch executes a kingdom; given up all daughters gives a her speech to Lear – king with king of France –
IP hierarchical entry with responsibility but speech expressing how refusing to give perceptive / wise: judges
an authoritative opening expected to keep all much she loves him – flattering speech – Cordelia by her character
speech. principles and title of best speech gets best disowned by Lear. –
Point king share of kingdom. honesty / integrity. Lear
= childish / egotistical overreacts - impulsive.
Violent
Quotations/ 1st impression is through ‘Know that we have G-> “Dearer than eye- ->” (Aside) What “My fair, Cordelia”
Analysis stage directions; he divided in three sight, space and shall Cordelia speak? -Love and respects her
enters first our kingdom’. – horrify liberty” Love and be silent” “She is herself, a
‘Give me the map audience “Sir, I love you more ->disgusted and actions dowry”
there.’ -demands absolute than word can wield speak louder than words ->potent metaphor and
-map represents power, acceptance of his the matter” “I cannot heave”; powerful and comparing
authority, and kingship- decision, as though it is ->Artificial + strong Verb; struggling and her to riches
Lear literally holds the law. declaration of love which alliteration of heavy “Richest…Most loved…
kingdom in his hands. Disowns his daughter – is more important than sounding ‘h’ stresses Most despised”
- By demanding it so ‘thou my sometime freedom Cordelia’s anguish ->superlatives and his
abruptly =Lear daughter’ – rash / ->Hyperbolic flattery of - “Propinquity and love juxtapose Lear’s.
demonstrates the impulsive / not flowery and flattery property of blood” Determined to win
absolutism of royal honourable. ->dishonesty vs integrity ->powerful plosives and Cordelia’s heart
power ->he expects -strips Cordelia of R-> “In your dear disowning her and
immediate obedience. respect and love, highness’ love” removes her dowry
-Used royal plurals “We” reducing her to an ->sycophantic speeches, “thou my sometime
“Our”-> emphasise object of scorn. Shakespeare highlights daughter”
Lear’s majesty and - Calling her Lear’s tragic hamartia: ->reflects injustice and
authority as king and “sometime his vanity makes him absolutism
