act 2 Flashcards
(30 cards)
‘look sir, i bleed !
Edmund
‘and of my lands…….., ill work the means…….’
‘and of my lands loyal and natural boy, ill work the means to make thee capable’
‘murderous…..’
murderous coward
‘my…is cracked..’
‘my old heart is cracked, its cracked’ Lear
‘Edmund, i hear that………….office’
‘Edmund i hear that you have shown your father a child like office’- Cornwall praising him
True filial devotion- ironic seeing as what the sister shave done to Lear
‘some blood…..would….endeavour’
‘some blood drawn on me would beget opinion of my more fierce endeavour’
‘in cunning …..upon….’
‘in cunning i must draw my sword upon you’
‘you come with ………and take vanity…………..royalty of her father’
‘you come with letters against the king, and take vanity the puppets part against the royalty of her father’
‘call not…..i serve the king’
‘call not your stocks fore me, i serve the king’
‘you shall do………., show too bold ………and person of my master……….’
‘you shall do small respect, show too bold malice against the grace and person of my master stocking his messenger’’ Kent
‘till noon……..and all night too’
‘till noon? Till night my lord and all night too’- regan
‘i will presevre………………to take the basest and most poorest…………in contempt of man…….’
‘i will preserve myself in the basest most poorest shape that ever penury in contempt of man brought near to best’ - Edgar
‘….I am nothing’
‘Edgar i am nothing’
Poor….’
Poor Tom
‘the country gives ………..of Bedlam beggars’
‘this country gives me proof and precedent of Bedlam Beggars’
‘Tis worse……..respect such violent outrage’
‘tis worse than murder to do upon respect such violent outrage’
‘o how……swells up……….Hysterica passio,…..sorrow’
‘o how this mother swells up towards my heart! Hysteria Passio, down, thou climbing sorrow’- Lear his heart is ready to break with grief and indignation
‘O regan……….unkindess, like a vulture’
‘O Regan, she hath tied sharp toothed unkindness, like a vulture’
‘you know the….the duke; how……..in his own course’
‘you know the fiery quality of the Duke; How unremovable and fixed he is in his own course’- Gloucester about Cornall
‘struck…………….like’
‘struck me with her tongue most serpent like’
‘you are old, nature……………her confine’
‘you are old, nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine’- Regan telling him he is on the verge of death
‘I pray you, that ……………..return. Say………….’
‘I prat you, that to our sister you do make return. Say you have wronged her’
‘O sides, you ……! Will you yet hold?’
‘O sides you are too tough! Wil you let hold?’
‘thou art my flesh……………………- or rather a disease……….which i must……………’
‘thou art my flesh, my blood, my daughter- or rather a disease thats in my flesh which i must needs call mine.’
