King Lear Flashcards
False Speech
love makes ‘speech unable’, ‘unnatural hags’
Kent on Speech
‘Nor are those empty-hearted, whose low sounds/ Reverb no hollowness’
Lear’s Yell
‘Howl, howl, howl, howl!’
Fatherhood
‘parental care’, ‘father’s heart’
Lear and Cordelia
he will not ‘be a comrade with wolf’
Cordelia speech
‘I cannot heave/ my heart into my mouth’
Edmund on Edgar
‘legitimate’ repeated, obsession
Lear appearance
He wears a crown of ‘furrow-weeds’
Nature
‘the wind and the rain,/ Must make content with his fortune fit’
Lear and Nature
‘oh ruined piece of nature’
Nature and indiscriminate
‘here’s a night pities neither wise men nor fools’
Cordelia death
‘Her voice was ever soft,/ Gentle and low, and excellent thing in woman.’