King Lear Flashcards
‘We have divided
in three our kingdom’ (Lear)- Act 1: Scene 1
‘Nothing will
come of nothing’ (Lear)- Act 1: Scene 1
‘He hath ever
but slenderly known himself’ (Regan)- Act 1: Scene 1
‘Thou, nature,
art my goddess’ (Edmund)- Act 1: Scene 2
‘Now Gods,
stand up for bastards’ (Edmund)- Act 1: Scene 2)
‘Villian’
(x4)- to Edgar not Edmund (Gloucester)- Act 1: Scene 2
‘I did
her wrong’ (Lear)- Act 1: Scene 5
‘Fortune, turn
thy wheel’ (Kent)- Act 2: Scene 2
‘Edgar I
nothing am’ (Edgar)- Act 2: Scene 3
‘Thy fifty doth
double five and twenty and thou art twice her love’ (Lear)- Act 2: Scene 4
‘O reason
not the need’ (Lear)- Act 2: Scene 4
‘There is
division’ (Kent)- Act 3: Scene 1
‘Here I stand your
slave, a poor, infirm, weak and despised old man’ (Lear)- Act 3: Scene 2
‘I am a man
more sinned against than sinning’ (Lear)- Act 3: Scene 2
‘The young
rises when the old doth fall’ (Edmond)- Act 3: Scene 3
‘O I have ta’en
too little care of this’ (Lear)- Act 3: Scene 4
‘Didst thou give
all to thy daughters?’ (Lear)- Act 3: Scene 4
‘His wits
are gone’ (Kent)- Act 3: Scene 4
‘Pluck
out his eyes’ (Goneril)- Act 3: Scene 7
‘O, my follies
then Edgar was abused!’ (Gloucester)- Act 3: Scene 7
‘I stumbled
when I saw’ (Gloucester)- Act 4: Scene 1
‘The worst is not
so long as we can say ‘This is the worst’.’ (Edgar)- Act 1: Scene 4
‘He has some reason
else he could not beg’ (Gloucester)- Act 4: Scene 1
‘As flies to
wanton boys are we to th’gods; they kill us for their sport’ (Gloucester)- Act 4: Scene 1
‘I know your
lady does not love her husband’ (Regan)- Act 4: Scene 4
‘Pray do not
mock me: I am a very foolish, fond old man’ (Lear)- Act 4: Scene 6
‘To both these
sisters I have sworn my love’ (Edmund)- Act 5: Scene 1
‘What you have
charged me with, that I have done, and more, much more’ (Edmund)- Act 5: Scene 3
‘The wheel
is come full circle’ (Edmund)- Act 5: Scene 3
‘The one the other poisoned
for my sake, and after slew herself’ (Edmund)- Act 5: Scene 3
‘The gods
defend her’ (Albany)- Act 5: Scene 3
‘All’s cheerless,
dark and deadly’ (Kent)- Act 5: Scene 3
‘Why should a dog,
a horse, a rat have life, and thou no breath at all?’ (Lear)- Act 5: Scene 3
‘The oldest
hath borne most: we that are young shall never see so much or live so long’ (Edgar)- Act 5: Scene 3
‘You ever gentle
gods, take my breath from me’ (Gloucester)- Act 4: Scene 5
