King Lear Flashcards

(45 cards)

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Unhappy that I am I cannot heave my heart into my mouth.

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I love your majesty according to my bond; no mor nor less - Cordelia Ii

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2
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See better

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Lear - Kent Ii

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3
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Does anyone here know me?

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This is not Lear, does Lear walk thus? Where are his eyes? - Lear Iiii

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4
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Oh fool, I shall

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go mad -Lear

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5
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I am a man more

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sinned against than sinning- Lear IIIii

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6
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The younger rises when

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the old doth fall - Edmund

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7
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Out vile jelly!

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Where is thy lustre now! - Cornwall III vi

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8
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Howl, howl, howl!

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Oh you are men of stones! -Lear

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9
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Now thou art an O without a figure,

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I am better than thou art now: I am a fool and you are nothing -Fool I iv

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10
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the hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long that

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it had its head bit off by it young I iv Fool

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11
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O let me not be mad, not mad sweet heaven!

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Keep me in temper; I would not be mad! -Lear Iv

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12
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Edgar I

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nothing am

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13
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O how this mother swells up towards my heart!

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Hysterica passio, down, thou climbing sorrow! - Lear II iv

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14
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Old fond eyes, beweep this cause again,

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I’ll pluck ye out - Lear I iv

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15
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She’ll flay thy

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wolffish visage- Lear I iv

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16
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You nimble lightnings,

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dart your blinding flames into her scornful eyes! - Lear to Reagan II iv

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17
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I tax, not you, you elements, with unkindness;

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I never gave you kingdom, called you children. III ii- Lear

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18
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The tempest in

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my mind- Lear III iv

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19
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O I have ta’en

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too little care of this! Lear III iv

20
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Those …. daughters- Lear III iv

21
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This tempest will not give me leave to

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ponder on things would hurt me more - Lear III iv

22
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Our flesh and blood my lord, is grown so vilde,

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that it doth hate what gets it- Gloucester III iv

23
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The little dogs and all- … see, they bark at me

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Tray, Blanch and Sweetheart - Lear III vi

24
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Is there any cause in nature that

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make these hard hearts? - Lear III vi

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I stumbled
when I saw - Gloucester
26
As flies to wanton boys are we to
the gods, they kill us for their sport- Gloucester VI i
27
Tis times the plague,
when madmen lead the blind- Gloucester VI i
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When we are born, we cry, that
we are come to this great stage of fools IV vi - Lear
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I had rather lose the battle than that
sister should loosen him and me p- Goneril Vi
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To both of these sisters have I sworn my love; each
jealous of the other, as the stung are of the adder Vi - Edmund
31
Forget and forgive. … IV vii- Lear
I am old and foolish
32
Let this kiss repair those violent harms that my
two sisters have in thy reverence made! - Cordelia IV vii
33
The wheel is come full circle;
I am here- Edmund V iii
34
A plague upon you,
murderers, traitors all! - Lear V iii
35
Why should a dog, a horse , a rat
have life, and thou no breath at all? Lear V iii
36
Physic, pomp. Expose thyself
to feel what wretches feel
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Fathers that wear rags
do make their children blind
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put fresh
garments on him
39
Oneself mate and make
could not beget such different issues
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Sir I do love you more than words can wield the matter
Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty
41
Avoid my sight
Out of my sight
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Now gods,
Stand up for bastards
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A man may see how
this world goes without eyes
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Man’s life is as cheap as
beast’s
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Why brand they us with base?
With baseness bastardly?base, base?