King Lear Flashcards
Gloucester illucidates Edomond’s illegtimate stauts
Pg 3 His breeding, sir hath been at my charge
Pg3 I shall study deserving
Lear partitions his kingdom
Pg9 The name and all the addition to a king: the sway, revenue, executions of the rest
Pg 9 This coronet parts between you
Lear explains the reason behind the division
Pg5 younger strength…future strife (prevent)
Pg5 Unburdened crawl towards death
Pg5 Which of you shall we say doth love us most
That we our largest bounty may extend
Gonerill and Regan’s proclaimed love for Lear
Pg5 beyond what can be valued, rich or rare
Pg7 I profess myself an enemy to all other joys
Cordelia’s expression of love
Pg7 You have begot me, bred me, loved me
Obey you, love you, and most honour you
Pg7 according to my bond, no more or less
Lear banishes Cordelia
Pg9 Nothing, my lord// Nothingx2// Nothing will come of nothing
Pg13 When she was dear to us…but now her price is fallen
Lear and Kent verbally spar
Pg9 honored as my king…loved as my father
Pg11 power to flattery bows…plainness honour’s bound…majesty falls to folly
Pg11 kill thy physician…foul disease
Gonerill and Regan plot against Lear
Pg19 R: next month with us
Pg19 Slenderly known himself
Edmond invokes natural forces and reveals his plan
Pg21 Nature, art my goddess; to thy law my services are bound
Pg21 with base? With baseness? Bastardy? Base, base?
Pg21 lusty stealth of nature take more composition…than doth within a dull stale tired bed
Edmond and Gloucester on Edgar’s letter of “treachery”
Pg23 nothing my lord…
Pg23 if it be nothing, I shall not need spectacles
Edmond and Gloucester’s respective explanations for the world’s chaos
Pg27 eclipses in the sun and moon…love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divine.
Pg27 foppery…surfeits of our own behaviour…lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star
Edmond and Edgar’s interaction
Pg29 On whose foolish honesty my practices ride easy
The Fool comments on Lear’s foolishness
Pg43 the hedge sparrow fed the cuckoo so long, that its had it ead bit off by it young
Pg43 This is not Lear// F: Lear’s shhadow
Lear’s curse against Gonerikk
Pg47 into her womb convey sterility
Pg47 having a thankless child is sharper than a serpent’s tooth
Gonerill effeminate Albny and Lear by dismissing 50 of his knights
Pg47 shake my manhood thus
Pg49 milky gentleness
Kent accuses Oswald and his master
Pg67 For though it be night, yet the moon shines
Pg71 like rats, often bite the holy cords a-twain
Edgar resolves to lower himself to the base
Pg75 take the basest and most poorest shape…nakedness
Pg75 pins, wooden pricks, nails
Pg77 that’s something yet: Edgar I nothing am
Lear demands to speak with Regan
Pg83 I’d speak with the Duke of Cornwall and his wife
Pg83 the dear father would with his daughter speak
Regan attacks Lear verbally andjon up with Goneril
Pg85 Nature in you stands on the very verge of his confine…. Should be ruled and led
Pg 93 thou art twice her love (G50 VS R25)
Pg93 What need you five and twenty? ten ? five?
Pg93 What need one?
Lear disheartened by his daughter’s cutting kniths
Pg93 O reason not the need! Our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous.
Pg93 Allow not nature more than nature needs, man’s life is cheap as beasts.
Lear rails against the storm
Pg101 Blow winds…you cataracts and hurricanoes spout…singe my white head
Kent and Fool’s description of the storm
Pg101 court holy water
Pg109 man’s nature cannot carry the affliction
Pg109 Let the great gods…find out their enemies now
Gonerill Regan Cornwall decides to punish Gloucester
Pg125 R: Hang him G: Pluck out his eyes C: Revenges
Pg 127 Though we may not pass upon his life without the form of justice
Pg127 do a curtsy to out wrath…may blame but not control
Edgar’s false perception that he is at the bottom of Fortune’s Wheel
Pg135 Stands still in esperance, lives not in fear
The lamentable change is from the best
Pg135 My father, parti-eyed? World, world, O world
