King Lear Act 1

Question 1

Our darker purpose

Answer 1

Lear I.i (35)

Question 2

My love’s/ More ponderous than my tongue

Answer 2

Cordelia I.i (76/77)

Question 3

Nothing will come of nothing

Answer 3

Lear I.i (89)

Question 4

I cannot heave my heart into my mouth: I love your majesty/ According to my bond; no more nor less

Answer 4

Cordelia I.i (90/91)

Question 5

Come not between the dragon and his wrath

Answer 5

Lear I.i (121)

Question 6

Only we shall retain/ The name and all th’addition to a king

Answer 6

Lear I.i (134)

Question 7

See better Lear

Answer 7

Kent I.i (157)

Question 8

I want that glib and oily art/ To speak and purpose not

Answer 8

Cordelia I.i (223-224)

Question 9

You see how full of changes his age is

Answer 9

Goneril I.i (286)

Question 10

He hath ever but slenderly known himself

Answer 10

Regan I.i (292)

Question 11

Thou, nature, art my goddess

Answer 11

Edmund I.ii (1)

Question 12

The late eclipses of the sun and moon portend no good to us… machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders… ‘Tis strange

Answer 12

Gloucester I.ii (105/106)

Question 13

We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars… An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!

Answer 13

Edmund I.ii (130/132)

Question 14

Authority

Answer 14

Kent I.iv (30)

Question 15

Nothing can be made out of nothing

Answer 15

Lear I.iv (131)

Question 16

Thou art an O without a figure… thou art nothing

Answer 16

Fool I.iv (190/192)

Question 17

Does any here know me?… Where are his eyes? Who is it that can tell me who I am?

Answer 17

Lear I.iv (223/228)

Question 18

Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend, More hideous, when thou show’st thee in a child, Than a see monster

Answer 18

Lear I.iv (258/260)

Question 19

Detested kite!… this creature

Answer 19

Lear I.iv (261/277)

Question 20

Into her womb convey sterility!

Answer 20

Lear I.iv (276)

Question 21

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is/ To have a thankless child!

Answer 21

Lear I.iv (287/288)

Question 22

Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise

Answer 22

Fool I.v (41)

Question 23

Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven

Answer 23

Lear I.v (43)