Albany is conflicted whether to fight France | “he’s full of alteration And self reproving” |
Regan only caring about sex literally moments before war | “have you never found my brother’s way to the forfended place” |
Goneril only caring about sex literally moments before war | “I had rather loose the battle than that sister should loosen him and me” |
Edmund thinking he owns the place | “Lear and Cordelia..shall never see his pardon; for my state stands on me to defend, not to debate” |
Edgar to Gloucester | “Men must endure their going hence, even as they are going hither” |
Cordelia being sad she’s in jail | “We are not the first who, with best meaning, have incurred the worst, for thee, opressed King am I cast down” |
Lear being thrilled with being in jail | ‘No, no, no, no! Come let’s away to prison! We two alone will sing like birds i’th’cage’ |
Albany shutting Edmund tf down | “Sir, by your patience I hold you but a subject of this war, Not as a brother” |
Regan submitting to Edmund (yuck) | “General take though my soldiers, prisoners…I create thee here my lord and master” |
Goneril and Regan sniping at each other | “Sick, O, sick!”…”If not I’ll ne’er trust medicine” |
Edgar on his status | “Know my name is lost; By treasons tooth bare-gnawn” |
Battle talk from Edgar | “Draw thy sword…false to thy gods, thy brother, and thy father” |
Goneril reminding Albany she’s queen and can do as she pleases (shortly before offing herself) | “Say, If I do, the laws are mine not thine” |
Edmunds complete 180 | “What you have charged me with I have done, and more, much more…the wheel is come full circle” |
Edgar reveals himself | “My name is Edgar, and thy father’s son. The Gods are just and of our pleasent vices make instruments to plague us” |
Edgar musing on life | “our lives’ sweetness – that we the pain of death would hourly die rather than die at once! |
Gloucester’s heart | “burst smilingly” |
Albany’s reaction to his dear wife’s death, and Edmund The Adulterer | “Produce the bodies be they alive or dead” “Now all three marry in an instant” |
Edmund doing a 180 continued | “some good I mean to do despite my own nature” |
Grief stricken Lear | “Howl, howl, howl! O! you are men of stone!…She is gone forever |
loopy stricken Lear | “Thou’lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never!…look on her, look her lips, look there, look there!” |
Kent becoming the New Depressive | Break heart, I prithee break…I have a journey, sir, shortly to go; My master calls me, I must not say no” |
Albany on power | “friends of my soul you twain you rule this realm” |
Edgar, take us home | “the weight of this sad time we must obey; speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most, we that are young; shall never see so much, nor live so long” |
King Lear quotations Act 5
July 27, 2019