King Lear Flashcards
1
Q
False Speech
A
love makes ‘speech unable’, ‘unnatural hags’
2
Q
Kent on Speech
A
‘Nor are those empty-hearted, whose low sounds/ Reverb no hollowness’
3
Q
Lear’s Yell
A
‘Howl, howl, howl, howl!’
4
Q
Fatherhood
A
‘parental care’, ‘father’s heart’
5
Q
Lear and Cordelia
A
he will not ‘be a comrade with wolf’
6
Q
Cordelia speech
A
‘I cannot heave/ my heart into my mouth’
7
Q
Edmund on Edgar
A
‘legitimate’ repeated, obsession
8
Q
Lear appearance
A
He wears a crown of ‘furrow-weeds’
9
Q
Nature
A
‘the wind and the rain,/ Must make content with his fortune fit’
10
Q
Lear and Nature
A
‘oh ruined piece of nature’
11
Q
Nature and indiscriminate
A
‘here’s a night pities neither wise men nor fools’
12
Q
Cordelia death
A
‘Her voice was ever soft,/ Gentle and low, and excellent thing in woman.’
