King Lear Flashcards
(10 cards)
Key Scene
Act 1 Scene 1
Act 1 Scene 2
Act 2 Scene 4
Act 3 Scene 2
Act 3 Scene 4
Act 3 Scene 7
Act 4 Scene 6
Act 5 Scene 3
Act 1 Scene 1 Quotes
-Nothing will come of nothing (Lear)
-Come not between the dragon and his wrath (Lear)
-I love your majesty according to my bond, no more no less (Cordelia)
-Younger strengths (Lear)
-Which of you shall we say doth love us most (Lear)
-Dearer than eyesight (Goneril)
Act 1 Scene 2 Quotes
-Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land (Edmund)
-Now Gods, stand up for bastards! (Edmund)
-Some villian hath done me wrong (Edgar)
-These late eclipses in the sun and moon (Gloucester)
Act 2 Scene 4 Quotes
-O fool, I shall go mad (Lear)
-The old man (Regan)
-Tis his own blame (Goneril)
-Man’s life is as cheap as beasts (Lear)
-Most serpent like (Lear)
Act 3 Scene 2 Quotes
-I am a man more sinned against than sinning (Lear)
-Rumble thy bellyfull (Lear)
-White head (Lear)
-My wits begin to turn (Lear)
Act 3 Scene 4 Quotes
-This tempest will not give me leave to ponder on things would hurt me more (Lear)
-O I have ta’en too little care of this (Lear)
-Pelican daughters (Lear)
-I am almost mad myself (Gloucester)
-Nothing could have subdued nature to such a lowness but his unkind daughters (Lear)
Act 3 Scene 7 Quotes
-Pluck out his eyes (Goneril)
-The revenges we are bound to take upon your traitorous father are not fit for your beholding (Cornwall)
-Where is thy lustre now (Cornwall)
-Where’s my son Edmund (Gloucester)
Act 4 Scene 6 Quotes
-Reason in madness (Edgar)
-Thy life’s a miracle (Edgar)
-When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools (Lear)
-Away and let me die (Gloucester)
Act 5 Scene 3 Quotes
-I do forgive thee (Edmund)
-Look her lips! Look there! (Lear)
-The wheel is come full circle (Edmund)
-Alls cheerless, dark and deadly (Kent)
-Enter Lear with Cordelia in his arms
-All Friends shall taste the wages of their virtues, and all foes the cup of their deserving (Albany)
Themes
Blindness, Power, Injustice, Madness, Loyalty
