PPT-THE TRAGEDY OF KING LEAR

Shakespeare Script Stage and Screen Bevington Welsh and Greenwald Chapter 17 The 45second Lear Bill Irwin at Joes Pub 2011 Redemption Nihilism and Cosmic Catastrophe KING LEAR is a drama of old age and family disintegration in which human life often appears meaningless and brutal Only HAMLET and MACBETH approach it in depicting such thorough devastation. By William Shakespeare. IV.i. . The heath. Enter EDGAR. . EDGAR. . Yet better thus, and known to be . contemn'd. ,. Than still . contemn'd. and . flatter'd. . To be worst,. The lowest and most dejected thing of fortune,. By: Christina, Jasmine, James, . Sabahat. and Jody. What is Allegory?. A story, picture, or play employing representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form. His life, and his work….. About his life. Shakespeare was baptized on April 26, 1564 and it is assumed that he was born on April 23, 1564. We also know that in 1582 at age eighteen, Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, an older women who was twenty six at the time. Shakespeare left Stratford for London to make his fortune roughly fours years later.. Tragedy. Dividing up the Kingdom. At the beginning. Lear is King of Britain. Gloucester (pronounced . Gloster. ) is a Duke. Both are in high positions “halfway between earth and sky”. This is a pre-Christian Britain. Introduction. King Lear explores conflict between the masculine and the feminine. This theme is illustrated through the disagreements between fathers/daughters/sons. Kathleen McLuskie suggests that ‘. By William Shakespeare. IV.i. . The heath. Enter EDGAR. . EDGAR. . Yet better thus, and known to be . contemn'd. ,. Than still . contemn'd. and . flatter'd. . To be worst,. The lowest and most dejected thing of fortune,. What is a tragedy?. A tragedy is a drama which, according to Aristotle, depicts . the downfall . of . a. . basically . good person . through . some . fatal error . or . misjudgment (hamartia), . producing suffering and insight on the part of the protagonist and . “All men by nature desire knowledge.”- Aristotle. Tragedy. Tragedy - . Tragedy dealt with the big themes of love, loss, pride, the abuse of power and the fraught relationships between men and gods. Typically the main protagonist of a tragedy commits some terrible crime without realizing how foolish and arrogant he has been. Then, as he slowly realizes his error, the world crumbles around him. The three great playwrights of tragedy were Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. . A play may be a tragedy, a comedy, or, in modern drama, a mixture of the two.. A . tragedy. depicts serious and important events that end unhappily. . A . comedy. ends happily. Although most comedies are funny, they may also make us think and question.. Making connections to . King . lear. Margaret Atwood. Canadian. Multi-talented. Morning in the Burned House. Father’s death. A. ging, mortality. “King Lear in Respite Care” Motif Activity. Listen to the poem as a class. Cordelia. ’ (1850). According to your coursework task, you are exploring the ways that writers present strong feelings about parent and child relationships to interest the audience in Acts I – III of . Jonathan Peel JLS 2014. Which characters double up?. Contrasts. Echoes. Mirror images. Given the two plots, it makes sense that there should be characters which double up.. Some critical responses follow. . William Shakespeare, 1564-1616. Grammar school. Married at 18 to Anne Hathaway (shotgun marriage). Three children (. Hamnet. , only son). Started in the theatre around 1590. Referred to in 1592 publication. or. - . . . Avoiding Love - or - . . Devastating Masculinity - or -. The End of . Civilisation. (In which the King orders the division of the kingdom ‘that future strife may be prevented now’ and William Shakespeare foresees nuclear winter) .