Notes from 3/20

More talk of King Lear.
Theme: All the drama that you need is within the family.
*I'm an only child so this doesn't ring as true for me as it does for those with larger families.*
filial ingratitude- After all Lear has done for his children they show him no thanks. His progeny become something he doesn't want them to be
flyting-verbal exchange of insults
Act 2 Scene 3
Edgar changes into the destitute, slightly mad, character Tom. This is perhaps one of the greatest transformations in all of Shakespeare.
Marilyn