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Tragedies of William Shakespeare and Sonnets: Character Analyses

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Shakespeare, William

Shakespeare, William
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Critic: Schuettinger, Robert
Affiliation: Earhart Fellow, Oxford University

Character Analyses

King Lear:

Lear is basically a generous and unsuspicious man, but he is too used to
getting his own way after a long lifetime of absolute rulership. He is also
hot-tempered and self-willed. Despite his age he is in top physical condition
at the beginning of the play (he goes out hunting when he is staying with
Goneril). His disinheriting of Cordelia is not an act of senility but the act
of a man who will stand no opposition to his slightest whim. What ...

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