Kent to Lear | ‘You’ (after being asked ‘who wouldst thou serve?)’A man sir’ (after a query as to his identity) |
Oswald to Lear | ‘My lady’s father’ |
Lear | ‘Where’s my fool?’ (after saying ‘I will look further into’t’)’O Lear, Lear, Lear! Beat at this gate that let thy folly in and thy dear judgement out’ |
Fool to Kent | ‘heres my coxcomb’ |
Lear to Fool | ‘Why no, boy; nothing can be made out of nothing. |
Fool | ‘Truths a dog that must to kennel; he must be whipped out, when the Lady Brach may stand by the fire and stink”The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long that it’s had it head bit off by it young’ |
Fool to Lear | ‘Lears shadow’ (in reply to ‘who is it that can tell me who I am?’)Scene 5 – ‘Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise’ |
Lear to Goneril | ‘degenerate bastard’ |
KING LEAR – Act 1 Scene 4 + 5
July 21, 2019