LEAR

LEAR

1. "Sound a sennet." "Enter King Lear, Cornwall, Albany, Goneril, Reagan"

2. "Know, that we have divided in three our kingdom" "That future strife may be prevented now"

3. "Which of you say doth love me most"

4. "Nothing?" "Speak again."

5. "Here I disclaim all my paternal care, propinquity and property of blood"

6. "Come not between a dragon and his wrath"

7. "This coronet part between you"

8. "The bow is bent and drawn"

9. "Out of my sight!"

10. "Than on a cruel wretch whom Nature is ashamed almost t'acknowledge hers"

11. "Did my father strike my gentleman for childing his fool?"

12. "Dinner, ho, dinner!"

13. "So please you-"

14. "Ho, I think the world's asleep"

15. "Who am I, sir?" "My lady's father"

16. "Dost thou call me a fool, boy?" "All thy other titles thou hast given away"

17. "Thou madest thy daughters thy mothers"

18. "The hedge sparrow fed the cuckoo so long that it's had its head bit off by it young"

19. "Who is it that can tell me who I am?" "Lear's shadow"

20. "Thou marble-hearted fiend"

21. "O Lear, Lear, Lear! Beat at this gate that let thy folly in (he strikes his head)"

22. "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!"

23. "Exit Lear" "Enter Lear"

24. "I did her wrong"

25. "A snail has a house"

26. "Kent still in the stocks"

27. "O, how this mother swells up toward my heart! Hysterica passio, down, thou climbing sorrow!"

28. "Will pack when it begins to rain, and leave thee in the storm"

29. "O me, my heart, my rising heart! But down!"

30. "On my knees I beg that you'll vouchsafe me raiment, bed, and food"

31. "Tucket within"

32. "O Regan, will you take her by the hand?"

33. "But yet thou art my flesh, my blood my daughter - or rather a disease that's in my flesh"

34. "Storm and tempest"

35. "But this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws"..."O Fool, I shall go mad!"

36. "Setting of heath"

37. "Strike flat the thick rotundity o'the world, crack Nature's moulds"

38. "I never gave you kingdom, called you children. You owe me no subscription; then let fall your horrible pleasure. Here I stand, your slave. A poor, weak, and despised old man"

39. "I am a man more sinned against than sinning"