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King Lear Flashcards

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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
1
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“Why brand they us with base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base?

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Edmund

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2
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“we shall express our darker purpose, give me the map”

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Lear

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3
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“I love you more than words can wield the matter”

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Goneril

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“I love your majesty

According to my bond, no more nor less”

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Cordelia

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5
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“I loved her most”

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Lear

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6
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“See better Lear”

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Kent

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7
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“I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall”

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Kent

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8
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“sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!”

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Lear

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9
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“I am a man more sinned against than sinning”

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Lear

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10
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“Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!, Rage! blow! you cataracts and hurricanoes”

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Lear

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11
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“naked wretches.. I have ta’en too little acre of this!”

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Lear

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12
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“Pluck out his eyes”

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Goneril

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13
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“I stumbl’d when I saw”

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Gloucester

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14
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“I have no way and therefore want no eyes”

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Gloucester

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15
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“Milk livered man!”

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Goneril

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16
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“Tigers not daughters.. most barbarous, most degenerate”

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Albany

17
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“an ample tear trilled down her delicate cheek”

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Gentleman > Cordelia

18
Q

“More convenient is he for my hand”

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Regan

19
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“Reason in madness!”

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Edgar

20
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“We two alone will sing like birds in the cage”

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Lear

21
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“The wheel is come full circle”

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Edmund

22
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unnatural hags”

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Lear

23
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“you are not worth the dust which the rude wind blows in your face”

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Albany

24
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“Milky gentleness”

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Goneril > Albany

25
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“Nothing will come of nothing

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Lear

26
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“I am a very foolish fond old man”

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Lear

27
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“I am a fool, thou art nothing.

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The Fool

28
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“Women are made either to submit - Cordelia - or must be destroyed - Goneril and Regan.”

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Kathleen McLuskie

29
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“He expects absolute obedience”

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Hal Holbrook

30
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“he is a loving father, despite all evidence of the contrary”

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Hal Holbrook

31
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“the titanic tragedy of human life”

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George Brandes

32
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“calculated to destroy faith in poetic justice and divine justice”

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Elton

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