the fall is going
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. -- Edgar
If you are a student assigned to read or see King Lear, or an adult
approaching it for the first time, your experience will be special. These
notes will help you get started.
If there was ever a historical King Lear, his memory has faded into
mythology. Llyr and his son Manannan are Celtic ocean-gods;
Manannan reappeared in Yeats's plays and the "Dungeons …
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…illegitimate son Edmund with some smutty jokes. We do not need to
see Edmund's face to imagine how often this must have happened, and how Edmund's feelings
must have been hurt by it. Edmund soliloquizes that he is as talented and as loved as his
legitimate brother Edgar, and that the accident of his birth is unjust. He professes allegiance to
"nature" rather than law or love, and decides that he will try to gain
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