Had Lear already decided how to divide his kingdom before he tested his daughters?

Why is Cordelia, in the first scene, "so stiff-necked," to use Joseph Papp's phrase?

Both Lear (III.iv.28-36) & Gloucester (IV.i.65-70) come to embrace the equalization of wealth. But didn't that cause the initial problem?

Why does Lear suddenly attack female sexuality (IV.vi.118-129)?

Is Lear in his second childhood?

Please interpret IV.i.10-12:"O world/But that thy strange mutations..." How is it an appropriate response by Edgar to his first glimpse of his blinded father?

Why don't we see the fool again after III.vi?

What did you find most interesting about Edmund?

What difference is there between Goneril & Regan?

Do the last 4 lines of the play belong to Edgar, or to Albany?

What tempts Young Goodman Brown to the Devil's communion?

Why do we hear so often about Faith's pink ribbons?

What does the story gain from the narrator's allowance that it may not be real (p. 12)?

Is laughter of the devil's party?

What is Elisa thinking when she tells Henry (p. 236) "You didn't know what you said?"

Why does Steinbeck tell the story through a limited 3rd-person narrator?

Why, at the end (p. 238), is Elisa "crying weakly - like an old woman?"

What causes the "hard little place" (p. 162) at the center of the mother's heart?

Why doesn't Paul want his mother to know about his luck (p. 170)?

Why doesn't the rocking horse have a name?

Why is Bassett associated with religious terms?

Is Paul's father less to blame than his mother?

Is Uncle Oscar an enabler?

Is the scene added at the end of the movie in keeping with Lawrence's story?

Is "The Rocking Horse Winner" a great story?