PPT-King Lear

By William Shakespeare IVi The heath Enter EDGAR EDGAR Yet better thus and known to be contemnd Than still contemnd and flatterd To be worst The lowest and most dejected thing of fortune. Bevington. , Chapter 17. 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 . King Lear. and the Collapse of Civilisation. The collapse of civilisation. Freud: . Civilization and its Discontents . (1930) . According to Freud, man is ‘a savage beast to whom consideration towards his own kind is something alien’ (1962: 59).. 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. quarto- 1608. Folio – 1623- one of 33 plays. The Tempest . – Epilogue to Act V. EPILOGUE. SPOKEN BY PROSPERO. Now my charms are all . o'erthrown. ,. And what strength I have's mine own,. Which is most faint: now, 'tis true,. 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. Motif. An element that recurs in a narrative or drama that has symbolic significance. Can be an image, phrase, act, word, sound or idea. A work can have more than one motif. Motifs tend to be concrete, while theme tends to be abstract. 13.04.2013. LECTURER. Dr. . Manimangai. Mani. Room : No. 4 . Muzium. . Warisan. . Melayu. , Blok C . Fakulti. . Bahasa. . Moden. . dan. . Komunikasi. , . Universiti. Putra Malaysia.. Mobile No.: 016-5316715. Territory, Land, . and the ‘Terrors of the Earth’. Stuart Elden, Department of Geography, Durham University. Meantime, we shall express our darker purpose.. Give me the map there. Know we have divided . 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 . Shakespeare: Script, Stage and Screen. Bevington, Welsh and Greenwald . Chapter 17. The 45-second Lear. Bill Irwin at Joe’s 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.. . 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. a. ge . During Shakespearean period the idea of the King giving up his kingdom to make way for the younger generation was considered absurd. Kings were chosen by God and were expected to reign until their death. . The Tempest . – Epilogue to Act V. EPILOGUE. SPOKEN BY PROSPERO. Now my charms are all . o'erthrown. ,. And what strength I have's mine own,. Which is most faint: now, 'tis true,. I must be here confined by you,.