Act 1

• ‘Know that we have divided our kingdom in three’
• ‘Nothing will come of nothing. Speak again’
• ‘Sir, I love you more than word can wield the matter. Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty […] No less than life, with grace, health, beauty, honour’
• ‘Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave my heart into my mouth. I love you, your Majesty. According to my bond; no more nor less’
• ‘Here I disclaim all my paternal care’
• ‘See better, Lear!
• ‘Avoid my sight!’
• ‘Let us hit together’
• ‘Unnatural, detested, brutish villain! Worse than brutish!
• ‘My cue is villainous melancholy‘
• ‘I do serve you in this business, a credulous father, and a brother noble, whose nature is so far from doing harm’
• ‘into her womb convey sterility; dry up her organs of increase’
• ‘So out went the candle, and we were left darkling’
• ‘Thou would’st make a good Fool’
• ‘Kill they physician‘
• ‘Nothing, my lord’
• ‘Come not between a dragon and his wrath‘
• ’I know what you are’
• ‘Nothing’ Fool