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King Lear Flashcards

1
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Gloucester illucidates Edomond’s illegtimate stauts

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Pg 3 His breeding, sir hath been at my charge

Pg3 I shall study deserving

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Lear partitions his kingdom

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Pg9 The name and all the addition to a king: the sway, revenue, executions of the rest
Pg 9 This coronet parts between you

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Lear explains the reason behind the division

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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

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Gonerill and Regan’s proclaimed love for Lear

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Pg5 beyond what can be valued, rich or rare

Pg7 I profess myself an enemy to all other joys

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5
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Cordelia’s expression of love

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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

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Lear banishes Cordelia

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Pg9 Nothing, my lord// Nothingx2// Nothing will come of nothing
Pg13 When she was dear to us…but now her price is fallen

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Lear and Kent verbally spar

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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

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Gonerill and Regan plot against Lear

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Pg19 R: next month with us

Pg19 Slenderly known himself

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Edmond invokes natural forces and reveals his plan

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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

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Edmond and Gloucester on Edgar’s letter of “treachery”

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Pg23 nothing my lord…

Pg23 if it be nothing, I shall not need spectacles

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Edmond and Gloucester’s respective explanations for the world’s chaos

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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

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12
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Edmond and Edgar’s interaction

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Pg29 On whose foolish honesty my practices ride easy

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The Fool comments on Lear’s foolishness

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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

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Lear’s curse against Gonerikk

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Pg47 into her womb convey sterility

Pg47 having a thankless child is sharper than a serpent’s tooth

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Gonerill effeminate Albny and Lear by dismissing 50 of his knights

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Pg47 shake my manhood thus

Pg49 milky gentleness

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16
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Kent accuses Oswald and his master

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Pg67 For though it be night, yet the moon shines

Pg71 like rats, often bite the holy cords a-twain

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17
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Edgar resolves to lower himself to the base

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Pg75 take the basest and most poorest shape…nakedness
Pg75 pins, wooden pricks, nails
Pg77 that’s something yet: Edgar I nothing am

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Lear demands to speak with Regan

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Pg83 I’d speak with the Duke of Cornwall and his wife

Pg83 the dear father would with his daughter speak

19
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Regan attacks Lear verbally andjon up with Goneril

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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?

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Lear disheartened by his daughter’s cutting kniths

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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.

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Lear rails against the storm

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Pg101 Blow winds…you cataracts and hurricanoes spout…singe my white head

22
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Kent and Fool’s description of the storm

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Pg101 court holy water
Pg109 man’s nature cannot carry the affliction
Pg109 Let the great gods…find out their enemies now

23
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Gonerill Regan Cornwall decides to punish Gloucester

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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

24
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Edgar’s false perception that he is at the bottom of Fortune’s Wheel

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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

25
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Gonerill’s sexual interest in Edmond and disinterest in Albany

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Pg141 This kiss…would stretch thy spirits up into the air…to thee a woman’s services are due
Pg141 milk-livered man

26
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Lear’s crown made of herbs

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Pg145 Crowned with…burdocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers

27
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Cordelia restores Lear’s men and health

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Pg169 Thy medicine on my lips, and let this kiss repair those violent harms
Century sent forth

28
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Gloucester becomes more perceptive of his environment before

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Pg149 methinks the ground is even…methinks thy voice is altered
Pg159 I see it feelingly

29
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Gloucester changing perception of his own life

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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

30
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Lear’s truth telling in a state of madness

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Pg161 we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools

31
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Cordelia’s brief feudal exchange with Kent

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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

32
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Lear seeks redemption and kneels

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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

33
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Cordelia and Lear’s contrasting views of going into prison

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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

34
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Gonerill poisons Regan

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Pg185 If not…I’ll never trust medicine

35
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Regan and Gonerill both try to win Edmond’s favour

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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

36
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Albany challenges Edmond to a duel

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Pg183 Throws down a glove

37
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Edmond and Edgar duels

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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

38
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Edgar‘s comments after Edomond’s death

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Pg191 the gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make instruments to plague us

39
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Both Gloucester and Lear die of happiness

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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

40
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Lear railing against societal callousness towards Cordelia’s death

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Pg195 Howl, howl, howl, howl! O you are men of stones

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