The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 8.0608. Thursday, 29 May 1997.
[1] From: Terence Hawkes <
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Date: Thursday, 29 May 1997 05:42:24 -0400
Subj: SHK 8.0605 Themes in King Lear
[2] From: Alan Pierpoint <
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Date: Wednesday, 28 May 1997 23:37:52 -0400 (EDT)
Subj: Re: Themes in King Lear
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From: Terence Hawkes <
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Date: Thursday, 29 May 1997 05:42:24 -0400
Subject: Themes in King Lear
Comment: SHK 8.0605 Themes in King Lear
For Chris Clark: One of the central themes in King Lear is
unemployment. Think about it.
T. Hawkes
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From: Alan Pierpoint <
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Date: Wednesday, 28 May 1997 23:37:52 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Themes in King Lear
One theme of Lear is that of old age, and the horror of Lear's
self-discovery: His shallow vanity has poisoned his family
relationships and left him destitute in his old age, with no time left
to make things right. Life is perhaps a race between self-knowledge and
death, and death always wins; but it matters, sometimes a lot, how soon
we learn what we DO manage to learn...by the way, an interesting take on
the Lear story, re-set in the American heartland, is Jane Smiley's A
Thousand Acres. Imagine the story told from Goneril's point of view,
with Cordelia as a bitch lawyer and Edmond as a Vietnam deserter and
organic farmer, and the old man...well, he's evil in ways that Lear
never was.
Alan Pierpoint
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