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King Lear Flashcards

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Quote for… Cordelia being the favourite

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

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Quote for… the love test being presented

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Which of you shall we say doth love us most

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Quote for… Edmund first soliloquy

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Now gods, stand up for bastards!

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Quote for… Goneril seducing Edmund

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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

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I did her wrong

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

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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

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Robes and furred gowns hide all

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Quote for… Cordelia’s death- ‘never’

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

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Quote for… Kent’s final lines

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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

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I am a man more sinned against than sinning

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Quote for… Gloucester’s realisation about Edgar

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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

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Hang him instantly

Pluck his eyes out

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Quote for… Albany’s insult towards Goneril

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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

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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

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

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Quote for… Regan being poisoned

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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

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

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Quote for… Edmund’s sentence before play starts

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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

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Nothing my lord.

Nothing shall come of Nothing, speak again.

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

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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

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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

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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

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Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least

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Quote for… Lear’s division of the kingdom

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

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Quote for… Lear’s storm

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

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Quote for… Lear’s speech on multiple people living in one house

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

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Quote for… Kent returning to serve Lear

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

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Quote for… Regan telling Lear he’s not capable of ruling anymore

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

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Quote for… Lear’s power as King

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Who is it that can tell me who I am

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Critic quote for… Lear’s death

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

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Critic quote for… Lear’s action’s consequences

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

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Critic quote for… Edgar’s descent to poor tom

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

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Quote for… Lear’s revelation about his power

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

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Critic quote for… Lear’s downfall

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

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Critic quote for… Lear’s loss of Cordelia affect

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

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Critic quote for… Gloucester’s blinding

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Johnson: Gloucester’s blinding scene is “one of the most painful in all English theatre”

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Critic quote for… the balance of good and evil

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

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Quote for… Gloucester’s realisation after blindness

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I stumbled when I saw

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Quote for.. Lear’s favouritism of Cordelia

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I lov’d her most

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Quote for… Lear’s hope for his future with Cordelia

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Set my rest on her kind nursery

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Critic quote for… the link between love and duty

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

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Critic quote for… Edgar’s choice of disguise

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

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Critic quote for… reason for Lear’s madness

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

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Quote for… Edgar’s association with nature

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Thou, nature, art my goddess

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Quote for… Lear’s view of madness and nature

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

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Quote for… Gloucester’s fear of nature

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

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Stage direction for… Lear’s entrance onto the heath

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Enter Lear: [Mad]

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Critic quote for… Edgar and Lear’s parallel

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

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Critic quote for… Shakespeare’s use of madness

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

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Quote for… description of fool

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all-licensed

51
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Quote for… fools power over lear

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I am a fool, thou art nothing

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Critic quote for… use of the fool

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Knight: the Fool is used as a chorus

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

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Is this the promised end

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Quote for… Knight’s view of Lear’s longing at start of storm

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things may change or cease

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Quote for… Lear asking C to change her speech

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

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Quote for… Gloucester’s affinity for stars and nature

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

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Quote for… the comparison of Lear’s daughters to animals

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

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Quote for… Edmund’s belief in him overtaking parents

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The younger rises when the old doth fall

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

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

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Quote for… Lear’s death

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Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass

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Quote for… Edmund being loved

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Yet Edmund was beloved

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Quote for… Edgar’s aside about lears madness

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

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Quote for… Oswald description

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Lily livered knave of a whoreson

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Quote for… Edmunds line about nature and bastards

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Now gods stand up for bastards

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Quote for… Edgar’s realisation that someone’s tricked him

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Some villain hath done me wrong

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Critic quote for… Loyalty to Lear

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

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Critic quote for… Lear’s words

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Lear’s words are monstrously unjust

A2 OCR English Literature (6 decks)

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