Edmund Flashcards
Edm- plays with Edg like a pawn
He ironically signs “like Tom O’Bedlam”
Edm - directs Edg’s actions by getting him to draw his sword and…
“Seem to defend” himself
Edg- “Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit: All with me’s meet that I can fashion fit.”
(Last lines in his soliloquy from act 1 scene 2)
Edm- “The younger rises when the old doth fall.”
Edm- “The wheel is come full circle; I am here.”
Edm after hearing Edg say that Gloucester has died
“This speech of yours hath mov’d me,”
Edmunds aside/ soliloquy where he declares his intentions:
“Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land… Edmund the base shall top th’legitimate… now, gods, stand up for bastards.”
Edmund reads from ‘Edg’s letter’ to Gloucester (act 1 sc 2)
“I have heard him oft maintain… sons at perfect age, and fathers declin’d the father should be as ward to the son, and the son manage his revenue.”
Edm- “Why brand they us with base? With baseness? bastardy? base, base?”
