Act 1, Scene 1 - Key Quotes

Question 1

“Dearer… liberty” - G_

Answer 1

“Dearer than eye-sight, space and liberty” - Goneril

Question 2

“Nothing… lord” - “C_”

Answer 2

“Nothing my lord” - Cordelia

Question 3

“Nothing… nothing” - L

Answer 3

“Nothing will come of nothing” - Lear

Question 4

“come… wrath” - L

Answer 4

“come not between the dragon and his wrath” - Lear

Question 5

“See… Lear” - K

Answer 5

“See better Lear” - Kent

Question 6

“But… fall’n” - L

Answer 6

“But now her price is fall’n” - Lear

Question 7

“Is… us” - F

Answer 7

“Is queen of us” - France

Question 8

“Tis… age” - R

Answer 8

“Tis the infirmity of his age” - Regan

Question 9

Example of Goneril’s hyperbolic language.

Answer 9

“Dearer than eye-sight, space and liberty”

Question 10

Example of Cordelia’s honesty.

Answer 10

“Nothing my lord”

Question 11

Lear’s first contribution to the motif of nothing and example of irony in Act 1, Scene 1.

Answer 11

“Nothing will come of nothing”

Question 12

Example of Lear’s arrogance.

Answer 12

“Come not between the dragon and his wrath”

Question 13

Example of both foreshadowing by Kent and the idea of dramatic blindness.

Answer 13

“See better Lear”

Question 14

Example of Lear’s confusion between love and possession.

Answer 14

“But now her price is fall’n”

Question 15

Example of something coming of nothing.

Answer 15

“Is queen of us”

Question 16

Example of Regan’s criticism of Lear.

Answer 16

“Tis the infirmity of his age”