Flashcards in The play in general Deck (5)
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1
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What did Joseph Warton say about the play?
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“too savage and shocking”
2
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What did George Orwell think?
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“It is too drawn-out and has too many characters and sub-plots”
3
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G.K. Hunter
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“King Lear is generally agreed today to be Shakespeare’s ‘greatest play’”
4
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Maynard Mack (1993)
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“King Lear’s world, like our century, is larger, looser, cruder, crueller.”
5
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G. Wilson Knight
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“The play is a microcosm of the human race.”