King Lear - Act - 1 + 2 - Kingship
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- Created on: 11-01-18 10:44
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- King Lear - Kingship
- Characters
- Lear
- The Fool
- King of France
- Act 1
- "Well, you’ve given away all your other rightful titles. The title of “fool” is the only one left."
- " Only shall we retainThe name, and all th' additions to a king"
- "I do invest you jointly with my power"
- "While we unburdened crawl toward death"
- "Know that we have divided/ In three our kingdom"
- "Now by Apollo"
- "Thy banished trunk be found in our dominions"
- "give me an egg, and I’ll give you two crowns"
- "My love should kindle to inflamed respect.—Thy dowerless daughter, King, thrown to my chance"
- Act 2
- "They durst not do ’t.They could not, would not do ’t. 'Tis worse than murder"
- "Who put my man i'the stocks?/Who stocked my servant?/How came my man i'the stocks?"
- Kent was representing the King
- "The king wants to speak with Cornwall"
- "I gave you all"
- Context
- Divided country = weakened
- Civil war and upheaval
- King was the representative of God
- Treason was punished with death
- France = good King and proper king
- Giving up of power means losing everything and becoming nothing
- Characters
- Act 1
- "Well, you’ve given away all your other rightful titles. The title of “fool” is the only one left."
- " Only shall we retainThe name, and all th' additions to a king"
- "I do invest you jointly with my power"
- "While we unburdened crawl toward death"
- "Know that we have divided/ In three our kingdom"
- "Now by Apollo"
- "Thy banished trunk be found in our dominions"
- "give me an egg, and I’ll give you two crowns"
- "My love should kindle to inflamed respect.—Thy dowerless daughter, King, thrown to my chance"
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