HUMA 1780 Lecture : King Lear and the Odyssey

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7 Feb 2012

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William shakespeare y great elizabethan poet and playwright y widely regarded as greatest writer in english language y england s national poet y many debates to who shakespeare is. King lear y considered shakespeare s greatest work y said to be based on the story of the lear of britain, when written about by. Geoffrey monmouth in history of the kings of britain (1135) and other stories y write at the height of elizabethan period y machiavellian ideal. Lear s daughters y goneril lear s oldest, duchess of albany y regan lear s middle child, duchess of cornwall y cordelia lear s youngest, queen of france. Secondary characters y earl of gloucester y edgar older legit son y edmund villain. Act i y lear decides to step down from the throne, divide his property between his children: tests his daughters, danishes cordelia y significane of these actions, he makes fatal errors, he misjudges his daughters.

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