Thou, Nature, art my goddess: Act I
Who is Cordelia's spouse?
King of France
What happens to Kent at Gloucester's castle after he bullies Oswald?
He is put in the stocks
What significance does the storm hold throughout the play?
It represents Lear's growing mental unrest
Edgar intercepts a letter that Oswald is delivering. Who was supposed to receive the letter?
Edmund
Who poisons Regan?
In act 1 scene 2, Edmund begins a war between his father and brother. How was this initiated?
Through a forged letter
Who does Edgar become?
Poor Tom
Who plucks out Gloucester's eyes?
Cornwall
Who kills Oswald?
Edgar
What divides Goneril and Regan?
Their shared love for Edmund
How many knights did Lear bring to Goneril's castle?
100
Why did Edmund cut his arm in Act 2 scene 1?
To make it appear as if Edgar attacked him
What does Gloucester's blindness symbolize?
His misdirected sight regarding his sons (i.e., his preference for Edmund over Edgar)
Name the speaker: "No blown ambition doth our arms incite, / But love, dear love, and our aged father's right."
Cordelia
Name the speaker: "I have a speaker, sir, shortly to go; / My master calls me, I must not say no."
Kent
Who said, "Nothing can come of nothing, speak again."
King Lear
Why does Kent bully Oswald?
Kent sees Oswald as part of Goneril's cruelty toward King Lear
In Act 3, scene 4, Lear says that he must speak with the "philosopher." Who is this philosopher?
Name the speaker: “You are not worth the dust which the rude wind blows in your face”.
Albany
Name the speaker: "This speech of yours hath moved me, / And shall perchance do good."
Edmund
Who said, "Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth"
Cordelia
Who are the following two speakers:
"Hear me, my lord: / What need you five-and-twenty, ten, or five, / To follow in a house where twice so many / Have a command to tend you?"
"What needs one?"
Goneril and Regan
What does this quote imply? “I am a man more sinn’d against than sinning.”
Lear bemoans his terrible and unjust state
After he is blinded, where does Gloucester want Edgar to take him?
Dover
What is Kent's disguised name?
Caius