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KING LEAR QUOTES - ACT 1
Cards in this deck (28)
- 1Kingship / Mortality / Natural Order "Unburdened ..... towards death" - Lear"Unburdened crawl toward death" - Lear
- 2Family / Truth and deceit / Loyalty / Natural Order "I love you .... than .... ... ..... the ......" - Gonerill"I love you more than words can wield the matter" - Gonerill
- 3Family / Conflict / Truth and Deceit "I find she names my very .... of ...., Only she comes ... ....." - Regan"I find she names my very deed of love, Only she comes too short" - Regan
- 4Nothing / Family / Kingship / Conflict "N...... comes of ......." - Lear"Nothing comes of nothing" - Lear
- 5Family / Truth and Deceit / Loyalty / Nature / Duty "I love your ......., According to my ...., no more nor less." - Cordelia"I love your majesty According to my bond, no more nor less" - Cordelia
- 6Family / Kingship / Power "Here I ........ all my ........ care, Propinquity and ........ of ....." - Lear"Here I disclaim all my paternal care, Propinquity and my property of blood" - Lear
- 7Kingship / Natural Order / Madness "Be .... .......... When Lear is ..." - Kent"Be Kent unmannerly, When Lear is mad" - Kent
- 8Sight & Blindness / Truth & Deceit / Family "See ......, Lear" - Kent"See better, Lear" - Kent
- 9Family / Attitudes to women "Now her ..... has ......" - Lear"Now her price has fallen" - Lear (about Cordelia)
- 10Family / Truth and Deceit / Language "that .... and oily ..." - Cordelia"That glib and oily art" - Cordelia
("Glib" = fluent, but insincere and shallow) - 11Family / Power / Politics / Loyalty / Duty "You have ........ scanted" - Gonerill"You have obedience scanted" - Gonerill, to Cordelia
('You have disobeyed your father) - 12Truth & Deceit / Family / Natural Order / Fate "Time shall ...... what ....... cunning ....." - Cordelia"Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides" - Cordelia, to Goneril and Regan
('Time will tell what you are hiding') - 13Family / Madness "'Tis the ......... of his ...; yet he hath ever but ........ known himself" - Regan"'Tis the infirmity of his age; yet he hath ever but slenderly known himself" - Regan
('He's going senile, although he's never really understood his own feelings') - 14Nature / Gods and Supernatural forces "Thou, ...... art my ......." - Edmund"Thou, Nature, art my goddess" - Edmund
AO4: Jacobean period of religious and social change - 15Family / Gods / Natural Order "I grow, I ......., Now ...., Stand up for ........!" - Edmund"I grow, I prosper / Now Gods, stand up for bastards!" - Edmund
- 16Madness / Power "O Lear, Lear, Lear! Beat at this .... that let thy ..... in / And thy .... judgement out!" - Lear"O Lear, Lear, Lear! Beat at this gate that let thy folly in / And thy judgement out!" - Lear
- 17Family / Power / Attitudes to women "Into her .... convey ........." - Lear"Into her womb convey sterility" - Lear
- 18Family / Power / Loyalty "How ....... than a ......'s tooth it is / To have a .......... child" - Lear"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child" - Lear
- 19Family / Kingship / Natural Order "I am ....... / That thou hast the ..... to shake my ....... thus" - Lear"I am ashamed / That thou hast the power / to shake my manhood" - Lear (to Cordelia)
- 20Family / Truth & Deceit "I did her ....." - Lear"I did her wrong" - Lear
- 21Madness / Natural Order / Gods "O let me not be ..., not mad, sweet ......!" - Lear"O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven!" - Lear
- 22Nature / The God and Supernatural Forces "These .... eclipses of the sun and .... portend no .... to us" - Gloucester"These late eclipses of the sun and moon portend no good to us" - Gloucester
- 23Family / Natural Order "the .... cracked, 'twixt ... and ......." - Gloucester"The bond cracked, twixt son and father" - Gloucester
- 24The Gods and Supernatural Forces "This is the excellent ....... of the ...." - Edmund"This is the excellent foppery of the world" - Edmund
('Foppery' = idiocy) - 25Truth and Deceit "Truth's a ... must to ......" - Fool"Truth's a dog must to kennel" - Fool
('I get whipped like a dog for telling the truth') - 26Nothing / Kingship / Power / Truth & Deceit "Thou art an . without a ......." - Fool"Thou art an O without a figure" - Fool
('You're nothing') - 27Sight and blindness / madness "So out went the ......, and we were .... ........" - Fool"So out went the candle, and we were left darkling" - Fool
- 28Sight & Blindness / Madness "You're Lear's ......" - Fool"You're Lear's shadow" - Fool
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- A-Level English Literature (DRAMA) Flashcards on KING LEAR QUOTES - ACT 1, created by Bethany Fieldhouse on 09/05/2016.
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