Flashcards
Lear Quotes
Cards in this deck (22)
- 1Edmund (Legitimacy )'Edmund the base
Shall top th' legitimate.' - 2Edmund (Wheel of Fortune)'The wheel is come full circle; I am here.'
- 3Edmund/Edgar InheritancePrimogeniture
- 4Edmund (Age)'The younger rises when the old doth fall.'
- 5Edmund's 'Redemption''Some good I mean to do,
Despite of mine own nature.' - 6Kent (Submission A1 S1)'So may it come thy master, whom thy
lov'st' - 7Kent (Retorts A1 S1)'What wouldst thou do, old
man?' - 8Kent (Respect only for Lear)'You shall do small respect...against...my
master' - 9Kent (His and Lear's coming death)'...to bid my king and master aye good night'
- 10Kent and Coleridge"Perhaps [the] nearest to perfect goodness in all Shakespeare's
characters." - 11Kent and CohenKent is "the stereotype of
the proud and rugged man of Kent" - 12Edgar (struggling to stay disguised)[Aside] I cannot daub it further.
- 13Edgar (about Lear's madness)O, matter and impertinency mix'd!
Reason, in madness! - 14Edgar (Metatheatre)'Some villain hath done me wrong.'
- 15Goneril (A1 S1)'A love that makes breath poor and speech unable' - Hyperbolic
- 16Regan (A1 S1)'Which the most precious square of sense possesses' - Sibilance = forced sweetness, contrived
- 17Goneril (Her house)'Shows like a riotous inn
'Brothel than a grac'd palace.' - 18Regan (Disrupts Lear- 'I gave you all..')'And in good time you gave it.'
- 19Regan (Gloucester)'Hang him instantly!'
- 20Goneril (Gloucester)'Pluck out his eyes!'
- 21Regan (Marxist interp)'A peasant stands up thus?'
- 22Regan (Response to Lear's harshness)'He hath ever but slenderly known himself'
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- Flashcards on Lear Quotes, created by Shamini Mustoe on 16/06/2016.
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