King Lear Act 2

• O madam, my old heart, it's cracked it's cracked!


  Gloucester talking about Edgar betraying him
• loyal and natural boy

  Gloucester misguidedly describing Edmund
• A knave, a rascal, a beggar...the son and heir of a mongrel bitch

  Kent insulting Oswald
• Fetch forth the stocks ...we'll teach you!


  Cornwall talking to Kent
• Edgar I nothing am


  Edgar delivering a soliloquy about his transformation to Poor Tom
• Let go thy hold when a great wheel runs down a hill lest it break thy neck with following it


  The Fool talking about why so many of Lear's knights have deserted him - they don't want to be dragged down with him
• O Sir, you are old... you should be ruled and led

  Regan talking to Lear
• Art not thou ashamed to look upon this beard?


  Lear suggesting to Goneril that she should be more sympathetic to him due to his old age
• How in one house/Should many people, under two commands, Hold amity?

  Regan telling Lear that only one person can be in charge at her house
• Lear: I gave you all.Regan: And in good time you gave it.


  Regan is suggesting that Lear should have given up his power sooner
• Goneril: What need you five and twenty? Ten? Or five?...Regan: What need one?

  Goneril and Regan suggesting that Lear should dispense with his knights altogether
• O reason not the need .Our basest beggars / Are in the poorest thingsuperfluous.


  Lear reacting angrily to Regan and Goneril suggesting he should abandon his knights altogether
• Shut up your doors

  Regan and Cornwall both tell Gloucester to do this at the end of Act 2, Scene 4. They are instructing him to lock Lear out of Gloucester's castle