King Lear Flashcards
Quote for… Cordelia being the favourite
What can you say to draw a third more opulent than your sisters?
Quote for… the love test being presented
Which of you shall we say doth love us most
Quote for… Edmund first soliloquy
Now gods, stand up for bastards!
Quote for… Goneril seducing Edmund
This Kiss, if it durst speak would stretch thy spirits up into the air
Quote for… Lear realising the error of his ways
I did her wrong
Quote for… Lear’s initial favouritism of Albany and Cornwall
I thought the King had been more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall
Quote for… concealment of power through disguise
Robes and furred gowns hide all
Quote for… Cordelia’s death- ‘never’
… come no more, never, never, never, never, never.
Quote for… Kent’s final lines
A journey sir, shortly to go, my master called me, I must not say no.
Quote for… Lear’s selfish claim
I am a man more sinned against than sinning
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
Quote for… Regan and Goneril’s orders on Gloucester’s blinding
Hang him instantly
Pluck his eyes out
Quote for… Albany’s insult towards Goneril
You are not worth the dust which the rude wind blows in your face
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
Quote for… Edmund’s consideration of both sisters
Which of them shall I take? Neither can be enjoyed if both remain alive
Quote for… Regan being poisoned
Lady I am not well, else I should answer to a full flowing stomach
Quote for… Edmund’s change of heart
This speech of yours hath moved me and shall perchance do good
Quote for… Edmund’s sentence before play starts
He hath been out 9 years and away he shall again
Quote for… Cordeila’s refusal to speak in love test
Nothing my lord.
Nothing shall come of Nothing, speak again.
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
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
Quote for… Albany’s reinstatement of order
We will resign during the life of this old majesty to him our absolute power
Quote for… Kent’s attempt to convince Lear of Cordelia’s innocence
Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least
Quote for… Lear’s division of the kingdom
Know that we have divided in three our kingdom and ‘tis our fast intent
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
all-licensed
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
