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in reply to a message by Puck
I don't much admire the Shakespeare character - the whole tragedy could have been avoided if she'd only put common courtesy above her own tight little identity - and I also dislike the way Cordelia sounds like Cornelia with a bad cold.
Delia is fine; so is the much less common Deliana and its sadly obsolete English version, Dillian.
Delia is fine; so is the much less common Deliana and its sadly obsolete English version, Dillian.
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In defense of the character...
"I don't much admire the Shakespeare character - the whole tragedy could have been avoided if she'd only put common courtesy above her own tight little identity..."
The reason she was disinherited was not that she eschewed "common courtesy," but because she refused to take advantage of her father's growing dementia. Cordelia, Kent / Caius, and the Fool are the only characters willing to stand up to Lear and tell it like it is, and the first two suffer retaliation only because they are outnumbered by either active manipulators (Goneril, Regan & Co.) or enablers too afraid to say or do anything. So basically, the case of the tragedy is her own genuine, filial love for her father.
"I don't much admire the Shakespeare character - the whole tragedy could have been avoided if she'd only put common courtesy above her own tight little identity..."
The reason she was disinherited was not that she eschewed "common courtesy," but because she refused to take advantage of her father's growing dementia. Cordelia, Kent / Caius, and the Fool are the only characters willing to stand up to Lear and tell it like it is, and the first two suffer retaliation only because they are outnumbered by either active manipulators (Goneril, Regan & Co.) or enablers too afraid to say or do anything. So basically, the case of the tragedy is her own genuine, filial love for her father.
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Agree.
I love King Lear.
I love King Lear.
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