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so, it's a ghost story?

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A explicitly abusive version of [King Lear] robs us of our ability to feel for Lear. But an explicitly sympathetic Lear robs us of the ability to feel for his daughters. So I think the best version of Lear is exactly the one that Shakespeare wrote: ambiguous. It's the only version in which each character is frustratingly, but fascinatingly, complex. Cordelia loves her tyrannical and mercurial father, but she can't bring herself to say it. It's a paradox- and a question- so rich and sad that Shakespeare required a whole play to explore it.

Jillian Keenan, Sex with Shakespeare: Here's Much to Do with Pain, but More with Love

#shakespeare#king lear#lit#quote
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He told me and Claire of the play when we were very young, and called us 'my two Cordelias.' My father often said that the scene of Lear howling in anguish as he carries Cordelia's dead body onstage wrenched him more than any other in literature. And if I was a Cordelia to him, he was King Lear to me, both 'the great image of Authority' and 'a very foolish fond old man,' prone to 'ungovern'd rage' and capable of immense sweetness, intellectually sophisticated yet innocent and utterly without pretense. He was easily provoked, he demanded loyalty, he could be cruel and arbitrary. But he was also loving and longing, flawed and worthy. Can I make him stay a little? If I can make him live again, 'it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows / That ever I have felt.'

-Priscilla Gilman on her father Richard Gilman, The Critic's Daughter

#good. afternoon..#shakespeare#lit#quote
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