King Lear Flashcards
Gloucester illucidates Edomond’s illegtimate stauts
Pg 3 His breeding, sir hath been at my charge
Pg3 I shall study deserving
Lear partitions his kingdom
Pg9 The name and all the addition to a king: the sway, revenue, executions of the rest
Pg 9 This coronet parts between you
Lear explains the reason behind the division
Pg5 younger strength…future strife (prevent)
Pg5 Unburdened crawl towards death
Pg5 Which of you shall we say doth love us most
That we our largest bounty may extend
Gonerill and Regan’s proclaimed love for Lear
Pg5 beyond what can be valued, rich or rare
Pg7 I profess myself an enemy to all other joys
Cordelia’s expression of love
Pg7 You have begot me, bred me, loved me
Obey you, love you, and most honour you
Pg7 according to my bond, no more or less
Lear banishes Cordelia
Pg9 Nothing, my lord// Nothingx2// Nothing will come of nothing
Pg13 When she was dear to us…but now her price is fallen
Lear and Kent verbally spar
Pg9 honored as my king…loved as my father
Pg11 power to flattery bows…plainness honour’s bound…majesty falls to folly
Pg11 kill thy physician…foul disease
Gonerill and Regan plot against Lear
Pg19 R: next month with us
Pg19 Slenderly known himself
Edmond invokes natural forces and reveals his plan
Pg21 Nature, art my goddess; to thy law my services are bound
Pg21 with base? With baseness? Bastardy? Base, base?
Pg21 lusty stealth of nature take more composition…than doth within a dull stale tired bed
Edmond and Gloucester on Edgar’s letter of “treachery”
Pg23 nothing my lord…
Pg23 if it be nothing, I shall not need spectacles
Edmond and Gloucester’s respective explanations for the world’s chaos
Pg27 eclipses in the sun and moon…love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divine.
Pg27 foppery…surfeits of our own behaviour…lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star
Edmond and Edgar’s interaction
Pg29 On whose foolish honesty my practices ride easy
The Fool comments on Lear’s foolishness
Pg43 the hedge sparrow fed the cuckoo so long, that its had it ead bit off by it young
Pg43 This is not Lear// F: Lear’s shhadow
Lear’s curse against Gonerikk
Pg47 into her womb convey sterility
Pg47 having a thankless child is sharper than a serpent’s tooth
Gonerill effeminate Albny and Lear by dismissing 50 of his knights
Pg47 shake my manhood thus
Pg49 milky gentleness
Kent accuses Oswald and his master
Pg67 For though it be night, yet the moon shines
Pg71 like rats, often bite the holy cords a-twain
Edgar resolves to lower himself to the base
Pg75 take the basest and most poorest shape…nakedness
Pg75 pins, wooden pricks, nails
Pg77 that’s something yet: Edgar I nothing am
Lear demands to speak with Regan
Pg83 I’d speak with the Duke of Cornwall and his wife
Pg83 the dear father would with his daughter speak
Regan attacks Lear verbally andjon up with Goneril
Pg85 Nature in you stands on the very verge of his confine…. Should be ruled and led
Pg 93 thou art twice her love (G50 VS R25)
Pg93 What need you five and twenty? ten ? five?
Pg93 What need one?
Lear disheartened by his daughter’s cutting kniths
Pg93 O reason not the need! Our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous.
Pg93 Allow not nature more than nature needs, man’s life is cheap as beasts.
Lear rails against the storm
Pg101 Blow winds…you cataracts and hurricanoes spout…singe my white head
Kent and Fool’s description of the storm
Pg101 court holy water
Pg109 man’s nature cannot carry the affliction
Pg109 Let the great gods…find out their enemies now
Gonerill Regan Cornwall decides to punish Gloucester
Pg125 R: Hang him G: Pluck out his eyes C: Revenges
Pg 127 Though we may not pass upon his life without the form of justice
Pg127 do a curtsy to out wrath…may blame but not control
Edgar’s false perception that he is at the bottom of Fortune’s Wheel
Pg135 Stands still in esperance, lives not in fear
The lamentable change is from the best
Pg135 My father, parti-eyed? World, world, O world
Gonerill’s sexual interest in Edmond and disinterest in Albany
Pg141 This kiss…would stretch thy spirits up into the air…to thee a woman’s services are due
Pg141 milk-livered man
Lear’s crown made of herbs
Pg145 Crowned with…burdocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers
Cordelia restores Lear’s men and health
Pg169 Thy medicine on my lips, and let this kiss repair those violent harms
Century sent forth
Gloucester becomes more perceptive of his environment before
Pg149 methinks the ground is even…methinks thy voice is altered
Pg159 I see it feelingly
Gloucester changing perception of his own life
Pg153 Shake patiently my great affliction off…my snuff…should burn it self out
Pg153 deprived that benefit to end itself by death?
Pg153 bear affliction till it do cry out itself
Lear’s truth telling in a state of madness
Pg161 we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools
Cordelia’s brief feudal exchange with Kent
Pg167 How shall I live and work to match thy goodness>
Pg167 To be acknowledged…is overpaid. All my reports go with the modest truth, nor more, nor clipped
Lear seeks redemption and kneels
Pg169 thou art a soul in bliss, but I am boud upon a wheel of fire
Pg171 You must not kneel…foolish fond old man
Cordelia and Lear’s contrasting views of going into prison
Pg179 myself could else outfrown false fortune’s frown
Pg181 and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies, and herar poor rogues…God’s spies
Gonerill poisons Regan
Pg185 If not…I’ll never trust medicine
Regan and Gonerill both try to win Edmond’s favour
Pg183 In his own grace he doth exalt himself more than in your addition
Pg185 take thou my soldiers, prisoners, patrimony…the walls is thine
Albany challenges Edmond to a duel
Pg183 Throws down a glove
Edmond and Edgar duels
Pg187 my name is lost, by treason’s tooth bare gnawn and canker-bit
Pg189 privilege of my honour, my oath, and my profession…false to thy gods, thy brother, and thy father
Pg189 By rule of knighthood, I disdain and spurn
Edgar‘s comments after Edomond’s death
Pg191 the gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make instruments to plague us
Both Gloucester and Lear die of happiness
Pg193 burst smilingly
Phg193 Yet Edmond was beloved.
Pg199 Look on her! Look, her lips. Look there, look there
Pg199 my master calls me; I must not say no
Lear railing against societal callousness towards Cordelia’s death
Pg195 Howl, howl, howl, howl! O you are men of stones
