King Lear flashcards
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This King Lear flashcards page gathers over 40 community-made resources on scenes, quotations, characters and criticism. Most are for secondary-level study, helping school students practise recall and teachers find ready-made material. Choose a deck to start revising.
Flashcards
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32 cardsKing Lear Critics Mack Maynard (Patience in adversity)
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10 cardsKing Lear:Blindness and insight The concepts of blindness and sight are not explored by Shakespeare as physical qualities, but rather menta...
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39 cardsLear- Social/Historical Context RELIGION AND FEUDAL SOCIETY
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40 cardsKing Lear flash cards When was King Lear written roughly?
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37 cardsKL
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6 cardsUntitled KL A02 Gender
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65 cardsKing Lear AO2 Loss of power (shadow)
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68 cardsKing Lear AO2 Loss of power (shadow)
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38 cardsUntitled "Man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal"
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21 cardsUntitled
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31 cardsKING LEAR QUOTES - ACT 4 Attitudes to women "Down from the ..... they're centaurs, though ..... all above. / But to the ...... do th...
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37 cardsWOB & TR LINKS
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12 cardsgenre, structure and language in king lear Genre Introduction to tragedy
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41 cardsKing Lear important quotes "Hence, and avoid my sight"
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25 cardsKING LEAR QUOTES - ACT 2 Kingship / Politics / Power "O ...... not the ....!" - Lear
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55 cardsKing Lear I am a very foolish, fond old man
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10 cardsUntitled Lear - A02 D I C T A T O R N O H O P
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11 cardsShakespeare AO3 ARISTOTLE'S view on 'Tragedy'
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28 cardsKING LEAR QUOTES - ACT 1 Kingship / Mortality / Natural Order "Unburdened ..... towards death" - Lear
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23 cardsKing Lear Quotes 'As flies to wanton boys are we to the Gods, they kill us for sport' Gloucester 4.1
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26 cardsKING LEAR QUOTES - ACT 3 Nothingness / Violence / Nature / Madness "Blow ....s, and ..... your cheeks! Rage, ....!" - Lear
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7 cardsKing lear
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24 cardsSCENE SUMMARIES LEAR ACT 1 SCENE 1
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4 cardsUntitled Lear’s basic flaw at the beginning of the play is that he values appearances above reality. He wants to be ...
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27 cardsKing Lear AO3 quotes
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11 cardsUntitled
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22 cardsKing Lear Criticism Cordelia had an impact on the play and the audience... out of all proportion to the scanty number of words ...
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13 cardsKing Lear Act 1 Revision Who speaks first in the play?
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26 cardsKing Lear AO3 quotes
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14 cardsKING LEAR QUOTES - ACT 5 "To both these ...... have I ...... my love / Each ..... of the other as the ..... / Are of the adder" - Ed...
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9 cardsMadness, King Lear: Quotes “Ha! Goneril with a white beard?” or “Look, look, a mouse! Peace, peace, this piece of toasted cheese will ...
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6 cardsKING LEAR CRITICISM MADNESS - AO3 Hal Holbrook Coppelia Kahn Sam Mendes production
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15 cardsKing Lear things to remember What to use instead of arrogance?
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22 cardsLear Quotes Edmund (Legitimacy )
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8 cardsKING LEAR QUOTES - Act 2 Scene 1 & 2 This quote shows us that Edmund wants to have a mock fight with his brother. This is a trick as Edmund want...
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33 cardsKing Lear Quotes
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12 cardsUntitled
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11 cardsExam Technique- King Lear and Oedipus Rex just read the flash cards and stop farting about.
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7 cardsKING LEAR QUOTES - Act 2, Scene 3 and 4 Edgar is on the run, he is a wanted man. As well as this, he cannot leave the country as all of the ports a...
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11 cardsKing Lear Characters
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GoConqr OriginalUsing King Lear flashcards
Start with King Lear: Act 1 flash cards if you want to focus on an early part of the play. For a broader route through the action, look for the deck of scene summaries. Its cards are organised by act and scene, so you can work through them in order or return to a particular section.
For quotation practice, King Lear Quotes includes cards on injustice, insanity, disguises and character development. King Lear AO2 covers details such as repetition, personification and loss of power. There are also decks on social and historical context and on critical views.
Move between formats
Work through a small group of cards, then return to the ones you found difficult. If you want a longer explanation before trying them again, switch to a note on the King Lear unit page. A mind map can help you look at connections between ideas instead.
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Frequently asked questions
Which flashcards should I start with?
For a scene-by-scene route, start with the deck of scene summaries. If you want to concentrate on the opening instead, King Lear: Act 1 flash cards offers a narrower starting point. Both let you focus your revision on a specific part of the play.
What do the flashcards cover?
The decks cover scenes, characters, quotations, critical views, and social and historical context. King Lear Quotes includes cards on injustice and insanity, while King Lear AO2 includes cards on language features and loss of power. Other decks focus on individual acts or particular ideas.
Are these flashcards free to use?
Yes. Every resource listed here is free to open and study without an account. A free account also lets you make your own quizzes, mind maps, flashcards and notes, and save quiz scores. The listed resources were made by GoConqr users.