Test Flashcards
Give the quote where Lear announces his love test.
“Tell me, my daughters….which of you shall we say doth love us most?”
Give the quote where Lear asks Cordelia to answer the love test a second time.
“Nothing will come of nothing: speak again”
Give the quote where Lear asks Cordelia to change her final answer to the love test.
“How, how, Cordelia! Mend your speech a little, lest it may mar your fortune”
Give the quote where Lear suggests Cordelia’s answer to love test should be her worth
“Let it be so; thy truth, then, be thy dower”
Give the quote where Lear disowns Cordelia
“Here I disclaim all my paternal care, propinquity and property of blood”
Give the quote where Lear states he no longer sees Cordelia as his daughter.
“As thou my sometime daughter”
Give the quote where Lear states Cordelia’s worth has fallen as she is no longer important to him,
“When she was dear to us, we did hold her so, but now her price is fallen”
Give the quote where Lear casts away Cordelia to her suiters
“She’s there, and she is yours”
Give the quote where Lear says he now hates Cordelia
“Unfriended, new-adopted to our hate”
Give the quote where Lear calls Cordelia a wretch and suggests she wont be a good bride
“To avert your liking a more worthier way than on a wretch whom nature is ashamed”
Give the quote where Lear says he prefered Cordelia not be born than her answer to the love test
“Better thou hadst not been born than not to have pleased me better”
Give the quote where Lear calls Goneril names,
“Thou art a boil, a plague-sore, an embossed carbuncle, in my corrupted blood”
