Quotations Act 1

Question 1

Gloucester talking about Edmund

Answer 1

There was good sport at his making, and the whoreson must be acknowledged

Question 2

Lear talking to his three daughters at the start of the play

Answer 2

We have divided in three our kingdom… while we unburdened crawl towards death

Question 3

Gonerill flattering Lear during the love test

Answer 3

Sir, I love you more than word can weild the matter. Dearer than eyesight space and liberty

Question 4

Cordelia explaining to lear that she cannot say what she doesn’t feel

Answer 4

I cannot heave my heart into my mouth

Question 5

Lear talking to cordelia after she has refused to say how much she loves him

Answer 5

Nothing will come of nothing

Question 6

Lear disowning cordelia

Answer 6

I disclaim al my paternal care, propinquity and property of blood

Question 7

Lear talking to kent about cordelia

Answer 7

I loved her most and thought to set my rest on her kind nursery

Question 8

Kent advising lear not to judge cordelia so hastily

Answer 8

see better Lear

Question 9

Edmunds sililoquy at the start of Act 1, scene 2

Answer 9

why bastard? wherefore base/ Edmond the base shall top th’legitimate. I grow; I prosper/ now gods stand up for bastards!

Question 10

letter that Edmund pretends has been written by Edgar

Answer 10

this policy and reverence of age makes the world bitter to the best of our times, keeps our fortunes from us till our oldness cannot relish them… I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny

Question 11

Gonerill talking about Lear to Oswald

Answer 11

old fools are babes agains

Question 12

Gonerill telling Oswald to be unfriendly/ distant to Lear

Answer 12

put on what weary negilgance you please

Question 13

Lear:
Oswald:

Answer 13

Lear: who am I sir?
Oswald: My lady’s father

Question 14

The fool mocking Lear for having divided his kingdom

The word crown has several possible meanings here

Answer 14

Nuncle give me an egg and ill give thee two crowns

Question 15

The fool

Answer 15

ever since thou madst thy daughters thy mothers. For when thou gavst them the rods and put’st down thine own breeches

Question 16

Lear:
Fool:

Answer 16

Doth any here know me? This is not Lear: doth Lear walk thus ? speak thus? where are his eyes? who is it that can tell me who I am?
fOOL: Lears shadow

Question 17

Single word beginning with r

Answer 17

Riotous

Question 18

Lear to Gonerill

Answer 18

Hear, nature, hear, dear goddess, hear… make this creature fruitful/ into her womb convey sterility

Question 19

Lear talking to Gonerill after she has suggested he reduces his train of knights

Answer 19

How sharper than a servant tooth it is to have a thankless child

Question 20

Lear talking to Gonerill after she has requested that he reduce his train of knights

Answer 20

Detested knights

Question 21

Gonerill describing her husband, Albany’s personality

Answer 21

Milky gentleness

Question 22

Lear talking about cordelia- first sign of regret from him

Answer 22

I did her wrong

Question 23

Lear talking to the Fool- although really talking to himself

Answer 23

o let me not be mad not mad sweet heaven!