King Lear Key Quotes

Front 1

Lear:

1) Sin

2) Who

3) Foolish

4) Wheel

5) Sulphurous

6) Fear

7) Woman's

Back 1

1) I am a man more sinned against than sinning.

2) Who is it that can tell me who I am?

3) I am a very foolish old man.

4) I am bound upon a wheel of fire, mine own tears do scald like molten lead.

5) Sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, stench; consumption

6) I fear I am not in my perfect mind.

7) Not let woman's weapons stain my man's cheek.

Front 2

Cordelia

1) Dog

2) Gods

3) Queen

4) Eyes

Back 2

1) A dog, a horse, a rat have breath and thou no breath at all?

2) The Gods to their dear shelter take thee

3) It seemed she was a queen; o'er her passion/ who most rebel-like/ sought to be King o'er her

4) Lend me your eyes, I would use them so that heaven's vault would crack

Front 3

Goneril

1) Fool

2) Day

3) Woman's

4) Degenerate

5) Milk

Back 3

1) Old fools becomes babes again

2) By day by night he wrongs me

3) To thou a woman's services are bound

4) Degenerate bastard

5) Milk liver'd man

Front 4

Regan

1) Metal

2) Dog

3) Serpent

4) Tigers

5) Hag

Back 4

1) I am made of that same self metal as my sister

2) Dog-hearted daughters

3) How sharper it is than a serpent's tooth to have a thankless child

4) Tiger-like daughters

5) Unnatural hag

Front 5

Gloucester

1) Flies

2) Extremes

3) Stumbled

4) Cracked

5) Edgar

6) Grief

Back 5

1) As flies are to wanton boys are we to the gods, they kill us for their sport

2) Twixt two extremes of passion; joy and grief, burst smilingly

3) I stumbled when I saw

4) My old heart is cracked, it's cracked...

5) If Edgar lives o bless him

6) The grief hath crazed my wits

Front 6

Edmund

1) Gods

2) Brand

3) Sun

4) Wheel

Back 6

1) Now Gods, stand up for bastards!

2) Why they brand us with bastrady base, base

3) the sun, the moon, the stars make guilty of our disasters

4) The wheel has come full circle

Front 7

Edgar

1) Just

2) Young

3) Nothing

4) endure

Back 7

1) The gods are just and of our pleasant vices make instruments to plague us

2) We that are young have never lived so long nor seen so much

3) Edgar I nothing am

4) Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither

Front 8

Critical

Jean Anouillh

Harold Bloom

Arnold Kettle

Back 8

'The spring is wound up tight, eventually it will uncoil itself'

'The descent from monarch to unnacommodated man thus conveys most potently man's fragility fallibility and fatality'

'Lear's madness is not so much a breakdown, as a breakthrough'

Front 9

critical 2

Susan Bruce (2)

Sean McEvoy

Back 9

'Lear's actions are a catalyst not a cause, because this world faces inevitable destruction that is outside an individual's control's

EDMUND 'A renaissance audience would immediately know of his villainy due to his illegitimacy'

'Lear has to be stripped of all his power before he can see through the ideology of Kingmanship'

Front 10

Albany

1) Dust

2) weight

Back 10

1)'O Goneril, You are not worth the dust which the rude wind blows in your face.'

2) The weight of this sad time we must obey

Front 11

Fool:

Nothing

Cuckoo

kling

DarklingCold

Cold

Back 11

I am a fool, thou art nothing

The hedgesparrow fed the Cuckoo so long it got it head bit off by it young

Out went the candle and we were left a darkling

This cold night will turn us all into fools and madmen

Front 12

Albany:

Dust

Weight

Back 12

O Goneril, You are not worth the dust which the rude wind blows in your face

The weight of this sad time we must obey

Front 13

Cornwall:

Eyeless

Back 13

Turn out that eyeless villain. Throw this slave upon the dunghill.