Test Flashcards
Give the quote where we learn Lear is beginning to notice Goneril and Regan’s malintent.
“I have perceived a most faint neglect of late”
Give the quote where Lear says he will take in the disguised Kent.
“I thank thee, fellow. Thou sevest me, and I’ll love thee.”
Give the quote where the Fool says he would rather be anyone else but not the King.
“I had rather be any kind o’thing than a fool. And yet I would not be thee, nuncle”
-Fool
Give the quote where we learn Goneril has made the King cry.
“These hot tears…break from me perforce”
Give the quote where Lear naively says Regan will be nice to him if he leaves Goneril’s home to go to hers.
“I have another daughter, who, I am sure, is kind and comfortable.”
Give the quote where Lear says Goneril’s actions are ugly compared to Cordelia’s.
“O most small fault, how ugly didst thou in Cordelia show!”
Give the quote where Lear admits to doing wrong to Cordelia.
“I did her (Cordelia) wrong”
Give the quote where Lear complains about Kent getting put in the stocks.
“They durst not do it: they could not, would not do it. ‘Tis worse than murder”
Give the quote where Lear begs Regan to provide housing for him
“On my knees I beg that you’ll vouchsafe me raiment, bed, and food”
Give the quote where Lear desperately asks Regan who’s side will she chose.
“O Regan, wilt thou take her by the hand?”
Give the quote where Lear tells Kent to go into the hovel before him
“Prithee, go in thyself, seek thine own ease”
Give the quote where Lear tells the fool to go into the hovel before him
“In boy go first”
Give the quote where Lear takes pitty on the homeless.
“Poor naked wretches”
Give the quote where Lear acknowledges he was been a poor king and has treated his people wrong
“O, I have taken too little care of this!”
Give the quote where Lear takes of his clothes in solidarity with Poor Tom.
“Unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art. Off, off, you lendings!”
Give the quote where Lear calls the world a stage for fools
“When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools”
Give the quote where Lear calls himself a fool
“I am a very foolish fond old man”
Give the quote where Lear tells Cordelia he would drink poison for her.
“If you have poison for me, I will drink it”
What does Lear say as he carried Cordelia’s dead body onto the stage?
“Howl, howl, howl, howl! O you are men of stones”
Give the quote where Lear announces Cordelia’s death.
“She’s gone for ever! I know when one is dead, and when one lives, She’s dead as earth.”
Give the quote where Lear says the fool has been hanged.
“And my poor fool is hanged!”
Give the quote where Lear asks why Cordelia can’t live but the animals can.
“Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, and thou no breath at all?”
Give the quote where Lear asks Cordelia for forgiveness.
“You must bear with me. Pray you now, forget and forgive. I am old and foolish”
