King Lear

• Gloucester, suffering (Act 4, Scene 1)


  As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods,

  They kill us for their sport.
• King Lear, marxist (Act 2, Scene 2)

  'I abdure all roofs... to be comrade with the wolf and owl
• King Lear imprisonment (Act 5, Scene 3)


  'we two alone will sing like birds i'the cage
• King Lear (Act 1, Scence 4) emmasculation


  'Thou hast the power to shake my manhood
• King Lear (Act 1, Scene 4) misogyny


  'into her womb convey sterility
• King Lear 'Act 1, Scene 1) basilikon doran


  'This coronet part between you'

  -mise en scene
• Edmund (Act 1 soliloquay)


  'Edumund the base shall top the legitimate. I grow, I prosper
• Fool (Act 1, Scene 4) coxcomb

  'All thy other titles thou hast given away'

  -places coxcomb on lear
• Lear (Act 1, Scene 4) filial ingratitude


  'How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child
• Edgar (Act 2, Scene 2) identity


  'Egdar I nothing am
• King Lear (Act 2, Scene 2) pestilential imagery


  ' a plague sore, or embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood
• Cornwall (Act 3, Scene 7) ennucleation


  'Out ville jelly, where is thy lustre now?'

  'Let him smell his way to Dover' (Regan)
• Gloucester ( Act 4, scene 1) identity


  'I stumbled when I saw
• Lear (Act 4, Scene 6) olefactory/yonic imagery


  'Down from the waist they are centaurs... there is the sulphorous pit,
• Kent (Act 5) dissapointment


  'Is this the promised end?
• Edgar (closing lines)


  'Speak what we feel,not what we ought to say.