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Lear (act 1:1) love test quotes

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“Which of you shall we say doth love us the most”
“Come not between the dragon and his wrath”

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Lear (act1:5) fears losing is mind

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“O let me not be mad”

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Lear (act 2:4) losing his mind and threatening regan

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“That all the world shall - I will do such things - what they are yet I know not”

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Lear (act 2:4) realisation of what he’s done

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“O fool, I shall go mad!”

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Lear (act 3:2) internal chaos mirrored by the storm

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“Blow winds, and crack your cheeks!”

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Lear (act 3:2) clarity and compare to dragon quote

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“A poor, infirm, week and despised old man”

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Lear (act 3:2) sees himself as a victim

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“I am a man more sinned against than sinning”

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Lear (act 3:4) still sees himself as a victim

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“Filial ingratitude”

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Lear (act 3:4) growing sense of suffering and his neglect

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“O I have taken too little care of this”

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Lear (act 4:6) realisation of unfair justice

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“Through tattered clothes great vices do appear - robes and fur gowns hide all”

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Lear (act 4:7) kneels before Cordelia

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“I am a very foolish old man”

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Lear (act 5:3) dies happy believing Cordelia is still alive

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“Look, her lips! Look there! Look there!”

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Gloucester (act 1:1) talking about Edmund

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“The whoreson must be acknowledged”

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Gloucester (act1:2) easily deceived by Edmund

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“Unnatural, detested, brutish villain”

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Gloucester (act 2:1) tells regan he is heartbroken by Edgar’s treachery

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“My old heart is cracked, it’s cracked!”

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Gloucester (act 2:2) begs Cornwall not to put Kent in the stocks

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“The king must take it ill, that he, so slightly valued in his messenger, should have him this restrained”

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Gloucester (act 3:7) now aware of Edmund’s betrayal

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“O my follies! The Edgar was abused. Kind gods, forgive me that, and prosper him!”

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Gloucester (act 4:1) gains metaphorical sight

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“ I stumbled when I saw”

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Gloucester (act 4:1) loss in faith in divine justice

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“As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport”

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Gloucester (act 4:6) despair is broken and he won’t kill himself

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“You ever-gentle gods, take my breath from me”

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Edgar (act 5:3) Gloucester died happy and redeemed

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“But his flawed heart… burst smilingly”

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Goneril (act 1:1) love test

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“I love you more than word can wield the matter”

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Goneril (act 1:1) says to regan that she wanted to act now

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“We must do something, and in the heat”

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Goneril (act 1:3) confident that she and regan are united

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“Let him to my sister, whose mind and mine, I know, in that are one”

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Goneril (act 1:4) asking Lear to reduce his number of knights
“A little to disquantify your train”
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Goneril (act 3:7) suggests to remove Gloucesters eyes
“Pluck out his eyes”
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Goneril (act 4:2) she fears regan and Edmund will start up a relationship
“Being widow, and my Gloucester with her”
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Goneril (act 5:1) would rather lose the battle with the French than let regan come between her and Edmund
“I had rather lose the battle than that sister should loosen him and me”
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Goneril (act 5:3) poisoned regan
“If not, I’ll never trust medicine”
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Regan (act 1:1) love test
“I profess myself an enemy to all other joys”
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Regan (act 1:1) saying Lear has never had good self awareness
“He hath ever but slenderly known himself”
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Regan (act 3:7) suggests to kill Gloucester immediately
“Hang him instantly”
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Regan (act 3:7) demands Cornwall to remove Gloucesters other eye
“One side will mock another. The other too!”
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Regan (act 4:5) telling Oswald to tell Goneril that she had won Edmund’s heart
“Edmund and I have talked more convenient he is for my hand”
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Regan (act 5:3) she has been poisoned
“Sick, o sick!”
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Cordelia (act 1:1) love test
“I cannot heave my heart into my mouth”
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Cordelia (act 1:1) explaining her honesty
“So young, my lord, and true”
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Cordelia (act 4:4) sending armies out to restore her father to his rightful place
“No blown ambition doth our arms incite but love, dear love, and our aged father’s right”
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Cordelia (act 4:7) presents as a Christ- like figure
“Restoration hang thy medicine on my lips”
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Cordelia (act 5:3) we are not the first people to suffer although well-intentioned
“We are not the first who with best meaning have incurred the worst”
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Lear (act 5:3) Cordelia has died
“She’s gone forever”
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Fool (act 1:4) mocks Lear for giving up his kingdom
“Thou hadst little wit in thy head when thou gavst thy golden one away”
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Fool (act 1:4) Lear has lost everything by trusting Goneril and regan
“I am better than thou art now: I am a fool, thou art nothing”
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Fool (act 1:4) first warning
“Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest”
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Fool (act 1:4) suggests Lear is a shadow of a man and he is his conscience
“Lears shadow”
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Fool (act 2:4) the worst is yet to come
“Winters not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way”
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Fool (act 3:2) suffering is universal even for a king
“Here’s a night pities neither wise men nor fools”
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Fool (act 3:6) last line
“I’ll go to bed at noon”
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Kent (act 1:1) warns Lear of his actions
“See better, Lear”
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Kent (act 1:4) disguised and demonstrated his loyalty
“My good intent may carry through”
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Kent (act 3:6) informs Gloucester that Lear has gone mad
“All the power of his wits have given way to his impatience”
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Kent (act 4:3) Lear is full of shame and regret
“Burning shame detains him from Cordelia”
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Edmund (act 1:2) establishes him as a ruthless Machiavellian figure
“Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy law my services are bound”
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Edmund (act 1:2) aims to usurp status through manipulation
“Now, gods, stand up for bastards!”
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Kent (act 5:3) declined power
“My master calls me; I must not say no”
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Edmund (act 1:2) if he can’t inherit land because of his birth, he will use his cleverness
“Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit”
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Edmund (act 3:3) plans to bring about Gloucesters downfall
“The younger rises when the old doth fall”
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Edmund (act 3:5) pretends to find it difficult to betray Gloucester
“How malicious is my fortune, that I must repent to be just”
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Edmund (act 5:1) arrogance when choosing a sister
“To both of these sisters I have sworn my love, each jealous of the other… which of them shall I take? Both? One? Neither?”
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Edmund (act 5:3) addresses Albany as his equal
“Sir”
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Edmund (act 5:3) at his death he shows a glimmer of self-awareness
“The wheel is come full circle; I am here”
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Edgar (act 2:3) as poor Tom, says he is no longer the man he was
“Edgar I nothing am”
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Edgar (act 3:6) his troubles have bent him but lears have Broken him
“How light and portable my pain seems now, when that which makes me bend makes the king bow”
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Edgar (act 4:1) after Gloucester has been blinded he will lead him
“Give me thy arm; poor Tom shall lead thee “
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Edgar (act 4:6) agent of healing and good
“Why I do truffle this with his despair is done to cure it”
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Edgar (act 5:3) actions have consequences
“The dark and viscous place where thee he got, cost him his eyes”
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Edgar (act 5:3) last lines
“We that are young shall never see so much, nor live so long”

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