King Lear Flashcards by Laura Bunce

Quote for… Cordelia being the favourite

What can you say to draw a third more opulent than your sisters?

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Quote for… the love test being presented

Which of you shall we say doth love us most

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Quote for… Edmund first soliloquy

Now gods, stand up for bastards!

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Quote for… Goneril seducing Edmund

This Kiss, if it durst speak would stretch thy spirits up into the air

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Quote for… Lear realising the error of his ways

I did her wrong

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Quote for… Lear’s initial favouritism of Albany and Cornwall

I thought the King had been more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall

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Quote for… concealment of power through disguise

Robes and furred gowns hide all

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Quote for… Cordelia’s death- ‘never’

… come no more, never, never, never, never, never.

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Quote for… Kent’s final lines

A journey sir, shortly to go, my master called me, I must not say no.

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Quote for… Lear’s selfish claim

I am a man more sinned against than sinning

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Quote for… Gloucester’s realisation about Edgar

I had a son, now outlawed from my blood; he sought my life but lately I’ve loved him

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Quote for… Regan and Goneril’s orders on Gloucester’s blinding

Hang him instantly

Pluck his eyes out

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Quote for… Albany’s insult towards Goneril

You are not worth the dust which the rude wind blows in your face

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Quote for… Cordelia’s reconcilliation when she finds Lear

Let restoration hang thy medicine on my lips, and this kiss repair those violent harms that my sisters in thy reverence made

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Quote for… Edmund’s consideration of both sisters

Which of them shall I take? Neither can be enjoyed if both remain alive

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Quote for… Regan being poisoned

Lady I am not well, else I should answer to a full flowing stomach

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Quote for… Edmund’s change of heart

This speech of yours hath moved me and shall perchance do good

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Quote for… Edmund’s sentence before play starts

He hath been out 9 years and away he shall again

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Quote for… Cordeila’s refusal to speak in love test

Nothing my lord.

Nothing shall come of Nothing, speak again.

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Quote for… Gloucester’s speech on the chain of being

Love cools, friendship falls of, brothers divide: in cities mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond cracked twixt son and father

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Quote for… Lear’s realisation Cordeila’s dead forever

A plague upon you murders, traitors all; I might have saved her, now she’s gone forever

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Quote for… Albany’s reinstatement of order

We will resign during the life of this old majesty to him our absolute power

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Quote for… Kent’s attempt to convince Lear of Cordelia’s innocence

Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least

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Quote for… Lear’s division of the kingdom

Know that we have divided in three our kingdom and ‘tis our fast intent

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Quote for... Lear's storm

Blow winds and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow you cataracts and hurricanoes

Quote for... Lear's speech on multiple people living in one house

How in one house should many people, under two commands hold amenity? It is hard, almost impossible

Quote for... Kent returning to serve Lear

Now banished Kent, if thou canst serve where thou dost stand condemned, thy master whom thou lov'st shall find thee full of labours

Quote for... Regan telling Lear he's not capable of ruling anymore

O, sir you are old. You should be ruled and led

Quote for... Lear's power as King

Who is it that can tell me who I am

Critic quote for... Lear's death

Bradley: He dies in agony... Not of pain, but of ecstasy (In the belief that Cordelia is alive)

Critic quote for... Lear's action's consequences

Bruce: Although Lear's actions don't help, they are the catalyst rather than the cause

Critic quote for... Edgar's descent to poor tom

Bloom: The descent from monarch to 'unaccommodated man' thus conveys most potently man's fragility, fallibility and fatality

Quote for... Lear's revelation about his power

They told me I was everything: 'tis a lis, I an not age-proof

Critic quote for... Lear's downfall

Schlegal: fall from the highest elevation into the deepest abyss of misery

Critic quote for... Lear's loss of Cordelia affect

O'Toole: In losing Cordelia, Lear loses his connection to that ordered feudal world

Critic quote for... Gloucester's blinding

Johnson: Gloucester's blinding scene is "one of the most painful in all English theatre"

Critic quote for... the balance of good and evil

Johnson: A play in which the wicked prosper and the virtuous miscarry

Quote for... Gloucester's realisation after blindness

I stumbled when I saw

Quote for.. Lear's favouritism of Cordelia

I lov'd her most

Quote for... Lear's hope for his future with Cordelia

Set my rest on her kind nursery

Critic quote for... the link between love and duty

Schwhen: Over time, duty and love become one and the same

Critic quote for... Edgar's choice of disguise

Schwhen: Edgar decides to become a beggar, not just any other disguise, because he feels worthless

Critic quote for... reason for Lear's madness

Dollimore: Lear loses his mind when he loses his social status

Quote for... Edgar's association with nature

Thou, nature, art my goddess

Quote for... Lear's view of madness and nature

We are not ourselves when nature, being oppress'd, commands the mind to suffer with the body

Quote for... Gloucester's fear of nature

these late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us

Stage direction for... Lear's entrance onto the heath

Enter Lear: [Mad]

Critic quote for... Edgar and Lear's parallel

Muir: Edgar, in acting madness, precipitates Lear's

Critic quote for... Shakespeare's use of madness

Owell: Madness is used to veil Shakespeare's social criticism

Quote for... description of fool

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Quote for... fools power over lear

I am a fool, thou art nothing

Critic quote for... use of the fool

Knight: the Fool is used as a chorus

Quote for... Kent echoing Lear about the end of the play

Is this the promised end

Quote for... Knight's view of Lear's longing at start of storm

things may change or cease

Quote for... Lear asking C to change her speech

Mend your speech a little, Lest it may mar your fortunes

Quote for... Gloucester's affinity for stars and nature

These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us

Quote for... the comparison of Lear's daughters to animals

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child Pelican daughters

Quote for... Edmund's belief in him overtaking parents

The younger rises when the old doth fall

Quote for... Edgar persuading G that he is on top of the cliff

How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low!

Quote for... Lear's death

Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass

Quote for... Edmund being loved

Yet Edmund was beloved

Quote for... Edgar's aside about lears madness

My tears begin to take his part, so much they mar my counterfeiting

Quote for... Oswald description

Lily livered knave of a whoreson

Quote for... Edmunds line about nature and bastards

Now gods stand up for bastards

Quote for... Edgar's realisation that someone's tricked him

Some villain hath done me wrong

Critic quote for... Loyalty to Lear

For Lear before his humbling, loyalty is connected with obedience and love:

Critic quote for... Lear's words

Lear's words are monstrously unjust