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Gloucester, 1.2 [on Edgar]

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“Unnatural, detested, brutish villain”

2
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Lear, 2.4

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“We are not ourselves when nature, being oppress’d, commands the mind to suffer with the body”

3
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Edgar, 5.2

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“Here father, take the shadow of this tree for your good host”

4
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Gloucester, 1.2

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“these late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us”

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Lear, 1.1 [to daughters, on love test]

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“where nature doth with merit a challenge”

6
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Lear, 1.1

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“A wretch whom nature is ashamed”

7
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What words appear 40+ times?

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“Nature” “natural” “unnatural”

8
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Hooven

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“Death is neither punishment nor reward: it is simply the nature of things”

9
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Bradley [on the storm on the heath]

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“Nature herself joins with the forces of evil in man to overpower the weak”

10
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John F. Dannby [Historicist reading]

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Argues that Lear dramatizes the meaning of nature, reflecting a debate about what nature was really like in Shakespeare’s time.

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Edmund, 1.2

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“Thou, nature, art my goddess”