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Madness, King Lear: Quotes
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- 1“Ha! Goneril with a white beard?” or “Look, look, a mouse! Peace, peace, this piece of toasted cheese will do ’t”- Lear experiences hallucinations on Dover cliffs
- mistakes Gloucester for Goneril
- Lear's mental reality has become a material reality for him - 2What does E.A.J. Honigmann note about the cap, or “coxcomb”?- it is a symbol of the fool’s professionalism
(specifically noted in the fool's first introduction) - 3What does Suzannah Lipscomb reflect on the portrait 'The Family of Henry VIII’?- identifies the presence of William Somer (the king's fool) who epitomises the fool’s employment to inject frivolity into the stoicism of a king’s life, liberating madness of a socially accepted form
- 4"Dost thou call me fool, boy?” (fool replies) “All thy other titles thou hast given away that thou wast born with”- Lear has selective autonomy over his political titles but the fool identifies that he holds an inescapably innate foolishness
- 5"be Kent unmannerly/ When Lear is mad"- complicates the tenses between “when” and “is”
- implies a repeat performance of what Lear so often rehearses - 6“That lord that counsell'd thee/ To give away thy land...”- the fool reframes political advice through linguistic lunacy to which Lear is partially responsive, unpicking and inquiring of the fool's meaning
- 7“tears his white hair”- his bodily deconstruction indicates the redundancy of his material self due to the domination of his mind over his body, explaining why Lear agitates the storm into redundancy
- 8“Now, by Apollo—“ “Now, by Apollo, King,/ Thou swear’st thy gods in vain”- Kent mocks Lear's tawdry invocation to the gods
- 9“...there’s hell,/ there's darkness, there's the sulphurous pit, burning,/ scalding, stench, consumption; fie, fie, fie! pah, pah!”- in the midst of his misogynistic polemic he cries out
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- ENGLISH UNIVERSITY (Shakespeare) Flashcards on Madness, King Lear: Quotes, created by Sophie Pereira on 24/09/2019.
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