Imagine (I said) a father asking his three children: Which of you kids loves me the most?" ... The Lear described in many critical essays sounds less like Shakespeare's monarch than the middle-class recreations of Lear in the nineteenth-century fiction of writers like Balzac and Turgenev. ... Like Jaffa, I try to show that Lear's errors are not, so to speak, vulgar errors; they do not simply proceed from stupidity or lack of thought. ... But as Shakespeare presents it, the problem runs deeper. ... Shakespeare repeats this pattern in Lear's appearances in act 4. ...

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• Approx Pages: 36
• Grade Level: High School

In As You Like It Rosalind and Celia, like Kent in King Lear, are liable to banishment by their patron, Duke Frederick. ... The text of As You Like It explicitly refers to that: Also, what danger will it be to us,/ Maids as we, to travel forth so far !... The like do you; so shall we pass along/ And never stir assailants (1.3.106-108, 109, 110-112). ... This dissonance is given attention in As You Like It and especially in King Lear. ... The same sense of rebellion is seen in Celia, in As You Like It. ...

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• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

Shakespeare use parallel structure of the main plot and subplot that mirror each other like throughout the play. ... Even more truthfully, she says "Why have my sisters husbands, if they say they love you all? ... Sure, I shall never marry like my sisters". ... In Shakespeare's works the weather always reflect the situation in the play itself. ... I tax you not, you elements, with unkindness". ...

• Word Count: 3449
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School