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1
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What is the setting of scene 1?

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Gloucester’s house

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Who is Curan? Whom does he tell Edmund will be arriving soon?

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Follower of Gloucester; duke of Cornwall and Regan

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What rumors does Curan say are circulating about the kingdom?

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Civil war between cornwall and Albany

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How does Edmund feel about Regan and Cornwall coming?

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Bring it on, he’ll use it to his advantage

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What is the double meaning in Edmund’s use of the word “descend” to his brother

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  1. Come down from balcony

2. Descend in status (so he can inherit the land)

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How does Edmund pretend to care for Edgar’s safety? Why do the brothers have similar names?

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He tells his brother to leave the lodging and hide from their father; because they’re foil characters with the same father

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For what crime does Edmund tell Edgar he is in trouble with Cornwall?

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Spoke against the Duke of Cornwall

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Why does Edmund pretend to fight with Edgar?

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To show that Edmund is on GLoucester’s side and to make Gloucester think that Edgar tried to hurt him

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What is ironic about the light for which Edmund calls?

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  1. Light to see in the dark

2. Light on the dark purpose even though villains usually do things in the dark

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Why does Edmund wound himself?

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To make it look like edgar hurt him

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What lie does Edmund tell his father in line 39? why does he mention charms?

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That Edgar struck him; play on father’s superstitions with moon and gods

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Why does Edmind delay answering his fathers question about the whereabouts of Edgar

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Divert attention and give edgar time to escape

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When Edmund points the way that Edgar supposedly went, what stage gesture is used?

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Point in the opposite direction of where Edgar went bc Edgar might reveal the truth if he were caught

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What lies does Edmund tell about his brother in lines 45-50

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Talks about how his brother stabbed him

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How does Edmind refer to the Great Chain of Being in his speech?

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he uses the word bond to show how a child should be bound to the father

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What does Gloucester mean with the word “dispatch”? What punishment will he ask Cornwall to bestow upon Edgar?

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Cutting off edgar’s head or some other form of execution

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What lie does Edind tell about Edgar in lines 63-77?

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Cussed him out and said he’d tell their father, then Edgar called him a bastard and said no one will believe Edmund’s word over his

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Transliterate Gloucester’s line “I never got him”

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He never fathered Edgar

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What does Gloucester say about his land in lines 80-84? Why?

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He will make Edmund able to inherit his land and now he disowns Edgar, and asks Cornwall to make a national search

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What does Gloucester mean when he reports to Regan and Cornwall that his heart is cracked?

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He has a broken heart from edgar

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Why does Regan immediately seek to link Edgar with Lear’s knights? What is a godson?

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Lear named Edgar (close relationship) and Regan wants to get rid of the knights. Here the villains join forces

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Who helps Regan link Edgar with Lear’s knights? Why?

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Edmund, wants to further hurt edgar

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In line 100, why does Regan say she has left her home and come to Gloucester’s?

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Came to ask for advice but really trying to hide from the King who is coming to her house

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What is ironic about Cornwall’s compliment to Edmund about a “childlike office”

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  1. Says Edmund is acting as a son should

2. We know Edmund is not

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Quote the line that shows Cornwall using the royal “we” and inviting Edmind into his service

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“For you, Edmund, whose virtue and obedience doth this instant so much commend itself, you shall be ours”

Echo king of France taking Cordelia

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26
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Show where Regan interrupts her husband. What does this action mean in the society of her day?

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She should be beneath him

27
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Why does Regan say she and her entourage have come to Gloucester’s?

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They can’t fight with the King if she’s not home

28
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What does “severally” mean?

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Because Kent and Oswald met, coming from different sides

29
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Why are Kent and Oswald both at Regans house?

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They are both there to deliver letters

30
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How is Kent rude to Oswald in the opening lines?

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He won’t talk to him and is being very brisk, then he tells him to go park in the mud

31
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Who would’ve enjoyed the name calling in lines 15-20

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The audience who came for dirty comedy

32
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What is Kent still upset about that causes him to draw his sword on Oswald?

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Because he was disrespectful towards the king

33
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How is Oswald a sissy? Where is the comedy in this spectacle, and who would enjoy it?

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He backs away and calls for help from murder, even though he had sword and is not even close to being murdered

34
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On who else does the disguised Kent draw his sword? why?

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The nobles who just entered (Gloucester, Cornwall, Regan) because they startled him

35
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What punishment does Cornwall say will befall Kent if he strikes again?

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He’ll be execute

36
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Explain the tailor insult

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Oswald has nice clothes but the man inside the clothes is useless, he is not a gentleman

37
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Explain the z insult

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z is present and its functions are used but you don’t need the letter. It’s useless

38
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What does Kent mean when he says, “anger hath a privilege” ?

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He has the right to speak out in the Kings defense

39
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Why does Kent say he is angry with Oswald? What does he mean about “biting holy cord atwain”

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Oswald looks like a gentleman and has a sword but doesn’t act like one. He doesn’t mind helping break the bonds of families

40
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What does Kent mean when he says “His Countenance likes me not”? How does he proceed to insult everyone present?

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I don’t like his face

Everyone here is ugly

41
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How and why does Kent change his language in lines 101-104?

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Imitating an obsequious way of speaking because Cornwall is talking about his bluntness

42
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Now does Cornwall decide to punish Kent?

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Confine Kent and shackle him

43
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On what grounds does Kent protest the stocks?

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He serves the king and is his messenger

44
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How does regan interrupt Cornwall while speaking to Kent

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She wants to increase his time in the stocks

45
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How does Gloucester show courage in his speech?

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Says to let the king handle Kent even though he is speaking to a higher class

46
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Who does Gloucester say will be blamed for the stocking of the kinds servant

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Cornwall

47
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What does Kent plan to do while in the stocks

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Sleep and whistle

48
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Why does he say he has such a good attitude

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It’s good for him to rest?

49
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What is unbelievable about Kents having a letter from Cordelia.

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She gave it to him as he was disguised

50
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What is the setting for scene 3?

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In the trunk of a tree in the forest

51
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How does Edgar say his circumstances have changed

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Now he is an outlaw and is out for arrest

52
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How does he intend to disguise himself? Why is disguise a motif in this play?

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Beggar: wear a loin cloth and put pins and other items in his skin. Messy hair and a dirty face.
Motif: good people have to disguise themselves. Shows that the kingdom is filled with chaos

53
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What will people call Edgar who see him? Why.

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They will call him poor Tom because he disguised himself to look like one of the bedlam beggars who were called poor toms as a general name

54
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How is the word “nothing” ironic while Edgar is speaking about his disguise

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He is in no way Edgar because he is Tom. He is no longer noble and is no one, but he’s still a good guy

55
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Who is they in Lears opening lines in scene 4

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Regan and Cornwall

56
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What does Lear immediately see?

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Kent in the stocks

57
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Explain the fools joke about Kent in the stocks

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Confined by “crewel” (yarn) garters. His legs are tied up like an animal, because men have the instinct to engage in intercourse

58
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Why does Lear have such a hard time unrewarding that Cornwall and regain have placed a representative of his in the stocks

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Because he’s amazed that they’re placing their power over his (against the great chain of being), and he believes that regan still respects him

59
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What insult does Kent give Oswald by saying “reeking post”

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He is sweating from sexual activity; late because he was with Gonereil

60
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What does Kent mean when he says he has more man than wit about him

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He has more courage than good sense and Realizes that he messed up

61
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Hidden meanings in Fools stories

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Children nice to their rich dads are nice to get money, when the dad has no money then they have no reason to be nice

62
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Of what disease does Lear complain? How is even this disease evidence of reversal

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Hysterica passio- disease that comes from the womb

Inversion because it feels like the womb is above the abdomen, symbolizing the chaos in the kingdom

63
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Why does the fool say Kent deserves to be in the stocks

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Because Kent says things without thinking, like accidentally insulting/embarrassing the king

64
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What possible explanation does Lear say might explain Cornwalls behavior? What does this say about Lears maturity not

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Cornwall might actually be sick, and it is difficult to work while you’re ill

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