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King Lear Flashcards

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“with strained pride/To come betwixt our sentence and our power,/Which nor our nature nor our place can bear,/Our potency made good, take thy reward.” (Lear, I, i, 171-174)

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Nature in King Lear

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“therefore beseech you/T’avert your liking a more worthier way/Than on a wretch whom nature is ashamed” (Lear, I, i, 211-213)

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Nature in King Lear

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“Sure her offense/Must be of such unnatural degree /That monsters it” (France, I, i, 220-222)

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Nature in King Lear

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“Is it but this? A tardiness in nature/Which often leaves the history unspoke/That it intends to do.” (France, I,i, 237-239)

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Nature in King Lear

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“Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law/My services are bound. … Who, in the lusty stealth of nature, take/More composition and fierce quality/Than doth, within a dull, stale, tired bed,/Go to th’creating a whole tribe of fops/Got ‘tween asleep and wake?” (Edmund, I, ii, 1-2 … 11-15)

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Nature in King Lear

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“His very opinion in the/letter. Abhorred villain, unnatural, detested, brutish villain” (Gloucester, I, ii, 80-82)

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Nature in King Lear

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“Though the wisdom of Nature can reason it thus and thus, yet Nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects. Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide.” (Gloucester, I, ii, 113-116)

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Nature in King Lear

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“Degenerate bastard, I’ll not trouble thee:/Yet have I left a daughter.” (Lear, I, iv, 260-261)

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Nature in King Lear

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“A credulous father, and a brother noble,/Whose nature is so far from doing harms/That he suspects none; on whose foolish honesty/My practices ride easy.” (Edmund, I, ii, 192-195)

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Nature in King Lear

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“Which, like an engine, wrenched my frame of nature/From the fixed place; drew from my heart all love,/And added to the gall.” (Lear, I, iv, 275-227)

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Nature in King Lear

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“Hear, Nature, …Suspend thy purpose…Create her child of spleen, that it may live/And be a thwart disnatured torment to her.” (Lear, I, iv, 282-290)

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Nature in King Lear

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“Seeing how loathly opposite I stood/To his unnatural purpose” (Edmund, II, i, 51-52)

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Nature in King Lear

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“and of my land,/Loyal and natural boy, I’ll work the means/To make thee capable.” (Gloucester, II, i, 85-87)

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Nature in King Lear

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“You cowardly rascal, nature disclaims in thee. A/tailor made thee.” (Kent, II, ii, 55-56)

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Nature in King Lear

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“We are not ourselves/When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind/To suffer with the body.” (Lear, II, iv, 105-107)

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Nature in King Lear

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“O, sir, you are old,/nature in you stands on the very verge/Of his confine.” (Regan, II, iv, 145-147) [

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Nature in King Lear

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“Allow not nature more than nature needs,/Man’s life is cheap as beast’s.” (Lear, II, iv, 265-266)

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Nature in King Lear

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“making just report/Of how unnatural and bemadding sorrow/the King hath cause to plain.” (Kent, III, i, 37- 39)

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Nature in King Lear

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“How, my lord, I may be censured, that nature thus gives way to loyalty, something fears me to think of.” (Edmund, III, v, 3-5)

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Nature in King Lear

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“Opresshd nature sleeps.” (Kent, III, vi, 96)

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Nature in King Lear

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“Edmund, enkindle all the sparks of nature/To quit this horrid act.” (Gloucester, III, vii, 87-88)

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Nature in King Lear

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“Death, traitor; nothing could have subdued nature/To such a lowness but his unkind daughters.” (Lear, III, iv, 70-71)

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Nature in King Lear

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“I fear your disposition:/That nature which contemns its origin/Cannot be bordered certain in itself;/She that herself will sliver and disbranch/From her material sap, perforce must wither/And come to deadly use.” (Albany, IV, ii., 1-36)

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Nature in King Lear

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“Nature’s above art in that respect.” (Lear, IV, vi, 86)

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Nature in King Lear

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“O ruined piece of nature!” (Gloucester, IV, vi, 136)

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Nature in King Lear

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“I am even/The natural fool of fortune.” (Lear, IV, vi, 192-93)

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Nature in King Lear

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“Thou has one daughter/Who redeems nature from the general curse/Which twain have brought her to.” (Gentleman, IV, vi, 208-210)

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Nature in King Lear

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Nothing my Lord.’ Lear - ‘Nothing can come of nothing, speak again’ (Act 1, Scene 1)

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Cordelia

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‘Now gods, stand up for bastards’ (Act 1 Scene 2)

• Lear - ‘How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child’ (Act 1, Scene 4)

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Edmund

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‘Thou shouldst not have been old before thou hadst been wise’ (Act, 1, Scene 5)

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Fool

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‘Blow winds and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow, you cataracts and hurricanoes’ (Act 3, Scene 2)

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Lear

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  • ‘I am a man more sinned against than sinning’ (Act 3, Scene 2)
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Lear

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‘As flies to wanton boys are we to th’ gods, they kill us for their sport’ (Act 4, Scene 1)

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Gloucester

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‘So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough’ (Act 4, Scene 1)

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Gloucester

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  • ‘They told me I was everything; ‘tis a lie, I am no ague-proof’ - (Act 4, Scene 5)
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Lear

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‘Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician seem to see the things thou dost not’ (Act 4, Scene 5)

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Lear

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‘When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools’ (Act 4, Scene 5)

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Lear

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‘Men must endure their going hence even as their coming hither’ (Act 5, Scene 2)

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Edgar (as Poor Tom)

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‘When thou dost ask me blessing, I’ll kneel down and ask of thee forgiveness’ (Act 5, Scene 3)

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Lear

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‘Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, and thou no breath at all’ (Act 5, Scene 3)

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Lear

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‘We that are young shall never see so much, nor live so long’ (Act 5, Scene 3)

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Edgar

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