3. Language
Gloucester ;
„ All dark and comfortless? Where‟s my son Edmund?
Edmund, enkindle all the sparks of nature to quit this
horrid act‟
Edgar ;
„Frateretto calls me, and tells me Nero is an angler in the
lake of darkness. Pray, innocent, and beware the foul
fiend.‟
Lear ;
„To have a thousand with red burning spits come hizzing in
upon‟ em! „
5. Critical Reading
“King Lear can be regarded by a play dramatising
the meaning of the single word „nature‟… to main
meanings, strongly contrasted and mutually
exclusive run through the play. On the one side is
the view adopted by Edmund, Goneril and Regan.
On the other is the view largely held by Lear‟s
party”
John Danby
6. Shakey concludes
• Reunited
• Edgar
• Kent
• Goneril and Regan
• Cornwall and Albany
• BUT…
Not such a happy ending.
