Shakespeare
Act One
Act Two
Act Three
Vocabulary
100
King Lear is one of these types of plays
What is a tragedy?
100
The play takes place here before the Roman invasion of the Anglo Saxons.
What is Britain?
100
Edmund's trickery forces these two into opposition.
Who are Gloucester and Edgar?
100
Goneril and Regan are loyal to these warring dukes.
Who are Albany and Cornwall?
100
When something happens that is the opposite of what you expect?
What is irony?
200
Shakespeare may have patterned King Lear from this King
Who is King Henry II?
200
From oldest to youngest, Gonril, Regan and Cordelia.
Who are the three daughters of King Lear?
200
He changes his face, but not his need to fulfil Lear's every need.
Who is Kent?
200
In disguise, Kent pleads for him to send word to Cordelia.
Who is the Gentleman?
200
Like iambic pentameter without the rhyming
What is blank verse?
300
Shakespeare used this kind of play on words.
What is a pun?
300
Two sons of Gloucester, one good the other bad.
Who are Edgar and Edmund?
300
Rude and disloyal to the King, Kent as Caius puts him in his place.
Who is Oswald?
300
King Lear says this does not owe him obedience like his disloyal daughters do.
What is the storm?
300
A long speech in a play
What is a monologue?
400
Shakespeare's plays are written in this kind of verse?
What is iambic pentameter and blank verse?
400
Disowned and banished, they remain loyal to King Lear.
Who are Cordelia and Kent?
400
He follows Lear through thick and thin and reminds King Lear of his stupidity.
Who is the Fool?
400
He says that a storm does not respect the wise or foolish.
Who is the Fool?
400
A long speech said to yourself
What is a soliloquy?
500
Due to her, Shakespeare was able to make the plays the way he wanted.
Who is Queen Elizabeth?
500
They are foils of each other.
Who are Lear and Gloucester?
500
When on the run, Beggar Tom he becomes.
Who is Edgar?
500
Lear finally realizes he is losing this.
What is his mind?
500
It's to grant or guarantee.
What is vouchsafe?
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