Quotes

Question 1

Lear (nothing)

Answer 1

How, nothing can come of nothing! Speak again.

Question 2

Lear (crawl)

Answer 2

Conferring them on younger strengths while we / unburdened crawl toward death

Question 3

Lear (sight, Kent)

Answer 3

Out of my sight!

Question 4

Lear (questioning)

Answer 4

Where are his eyes? Who is it that can tell me who i am?

Question 5

Lear (foolish)

Answer 5

Pray you now, forget and forgive; i am old and foolish

Question 6

Goneril (eyesight)

Answer 6

Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty

Question 7

Cordelia (tongue)

Answer 7

My love’s more ponderous than my tongue

Question 8

Lear (dragon)

Answer 8

Peace, Kent / Come not between the dragon and his wrath

Question 9

Kent (duty)

Answer 9

Thinkst thou that duty shall have dread to speak/ when power to flattery bows?

Question 10

Edmund (nature)

Answer 10

Thou, Nature, art my goddess, to thy law / my services are bound

Question 11

Edmund (gods)

Answer 11

I grow, i prosper: / now, Gods, stand up for bastards!

Question 12

Edmund (planets)

Answer 12

As if we were…/fools by heavenly compulsion

Question 13

Lear (goneril)

Answer 13

Header, Nature, hear, dear goddess, hear: / dry up in her the organs of increase

Question 14

Lear (carbuncle)

Answer 14

But yet thou art my flesh, my blood, my daughter, / or rather a disease that’s in my flesh

Question 15

Lear (women)

Answer 15

And let not women’s weapons, water-drops, / stain my man’s cheeks

Question 16

Lear (spit)

Answer 16

Spit fire, spout rain!

Question 17

Lear (sin)

Answer 17

I ama man/ more sinned against than sinning

Question 18

Gloucester (flies)

Answer 18

As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods, / they kill us for their sport

Question 19

Albany (vile)

Answer 19

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile

Question 20

Gentlemen (holy)

Answer 20

The holy water from her heavenly eyes

Question 21

Gloucester (feel)

Answer 21

I see it feelingly

Question 22

Lear (meta theatre)

Answer 22

When we are born we cry that we are come / to this great stage of fools

Question 23

Lear (h&h)

Answer 23

Thou art a soul in bliss, but i am bound / upon a wheel of fire that mine own tears / do scald like molten lead

Question 24

Edmund (romance)N

Question 25

Edmund (romance)

Answer 25

Neither can be enjoyed / if both remain alive

Question 26

Lear (bird)

Answer 26

We two alone will sing like I’ the cage

Question 27

Lear (heaven)

Answer 27

Had i your…eyes, id use them so / that heaven’s vault should crack

Question 28

Lear (glass)

Answer 28

Lend me a looking-glass / if that her breath will mist or stain the sone / why then she lives