King Lear

Question 1

Gloucester illucidates Edomond’s illegtimate stauts

Answer 1

Pg 3 His breeding, sir hath been at my charge

Pg3 I shall study deserving

Question 2

Lear partitions his kingdom

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Lear explains the reason behind the division

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Gonerill and Regan’s proclaimed love for Lear

Answer 4

Pg5 beyond what can be valued, rich or rare

Pg7 I profess myself an enemy to all other joys

Question 5

Cordelia’s expression of love

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Lear banishes Cordelia

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Lear and Kent verbally spar

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Gonerill and Regan plot against Lear

Answer 8

Pg19 R: next month with us

Pg19 Slenderly known himself

Question 9

Edmond invokes natural forces and reveals his plan

Answer 9

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

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Pg23 nothing my lord…

Pg23 if it be nothing, I shall not need spectacles

Question 11

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

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Edmond and Edgar’s interaction

Answer 12

Pg29 On whose foolish honesty my practices ride easy

Question 13

The Fool comments on Lear’s foolishness

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Lear’s curse against Gonerikk

Answer 14

Pg47 into her womb convey sterility

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

Question 15

Gonerill effeminate Albny and Lear by dismissing 50 of his knights

Answer 15

Pg47 shake my manhood thus

Pg49 milky gentleness

Question 16

Kent accuses Oswald and his master

Answer 16

Pg67 For though it be night, yet the moon shines

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

Question 17

Edgar resolves to lower himself to the base

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Lear demands to speak with Regan

Answer 18

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

Pg83 the dear father would with his daughter speak

Question 19

Regan attacks Lear verbally andjon up with Goneril

Answer 19

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?

Question 20

Lear disheartened by his daughter’s cutting kniths

Answer 20

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.

Question 21

Lear rails against the storm

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Kent and Fool’s description of the storm

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Gonerill Regan Cornwall decides to punish Gloucester

Answer 23

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

Question 24

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

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Gonerill’s sexual interest in Edmond and disinterest in Albany

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Lear’s crown made of herbs

Answer 26

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

Question 27

Cordelia restores Lear’s men and health

Answer 27

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

Question 28

Gloucester becomes more perceptive of his environment before

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Gloucester changing perception of his own life

Answer 29

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

Question 30

Lear’s truth telling in a state of madness

Answer 30

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

Question 31

Cordelia’s brief feudal exchange with Kent

Answer 31

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

Question 32

Lear seeks redemption and kneels

Answer 32

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

Question 33

Cordelia and Lear’s contrasting views of going into prison

Answer 33

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

Question 34

Gonerill poisons Regan

Answer 34

Pg185 If not…I’ll never trust medicine

Question 35

Regan and Gonerill both try to win Edmond’s favour

Answer 35

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

Question 36

Albany challenges Edmond to a duel

Answer 36

Pg183 Throws down a glove

Question 37

Edmond and Edgar duels

Answer 37

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

Question 38

Edgar‘s comments after Edomond’s death

Answer 38

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

Question 39

Both Gloucester and Lear die of happiness

Answer 39

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

Question 40

Lear railing against societal callousness towards Cordelia’s death

Answer 40

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