King Lear Flashcards
“Why brand they us with base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base?
Edmund
“we shall express our darker purpose, give me the map”
Lear
“I love you more than words can wield the matter”
Goneril
“I love your majesty
According to my bond, no more nor less”
Cordelia
“I loved her most”
Lear
“See better Lear”
Kent
“I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall”
Kent
“sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!”
Lear
“I am a man more sinned against than sinning”
Lear
“Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!, Rage! blow! you cataracts and hurricanoes”
Lear
“naked wretches.. I have ta’en too little acre of this!”
Lear
“Pluck out his eyes”
Goneril
“I stumbl’d when I saw”
Gloucester
“I have no way and therefore want no eyes”
Gloucester
“Milk livered man!”
Goneril
“Tigers not daughters.. most barbarous, most degenerate”
Albany
“an ample tear trilled down her delicate cheek”
Gentleman > Cordelia
“More convenient is he for my hand”
Regan
“Reason in madness!”
Edgar
“We two alone will sing like birds in the cage”
Lear
“The wheel is come full circle”
Edmund
unnatural hags”
Lear
“you are not worth the dust which the rude wind blows in your face”
Albany
“Milky gentleness”
Goneril > Albany
“Nothing will come of nothing
Lear
“I am a very foolish fond old man”
Lear
“I am a fool, thou art nothing.
The Fool
“Women are made either to submit - Cordelia - or must be destroyed - Goneril and Regan.”
Kathleen McLuskie
“He expects absolute obedience”
Hal Holbrook
“he is a loving father, despite all evidence of the contrary”
Hal Holbrook
“the titanic tragedy of human life”
George Brandes
“calculated to destroy faith in poetic justice and divine justice”
Elton
