Family

Family

1. ACT 1

   • "Yet he hath ever but slenderly known himself." Regan
   • "I want that glib and oily art To speak and purpose not." Cordelia
   • "Although the last, not least." Lear
   • "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child."
   • KENT I cannot conceive you. GLOUCESTER Sir, this young fellow's mother could, whereupon she grew round-wombed and had indeed, sir, a son for her cradle ere she had a husband for her bed.
   • You have begot me, bred me, loved me. I return those duties back as are right fit...Sure, I shall never marry like my sisters, To love my father all.
   • FOOL e'er since thou mad'st thy daughters thy mothers. For when thou gav'st them the rod and put'st down thine own breeches

2. ACT 3

   • "Thou shalt find a dearer father in my love." Cornwall to Edmund
   • Now, all the plagues that in the pendulous air Hang fated o'er men's faults light on thy daughters!Is it the fashion that discarded fathers Should have thus little mercy on their flesh? Judicious punishment! 'Twas this flesh begot Those pelican daughters.
     • Elizabeth I in the late 16th century (just previous to Shakespeare writing Lear) famously described herself as a loving pelican mother to her children, the subjects of England