Whose line is it anyways?
Nothing, my lord.
Cordelia
What triggers Lear to go crazy?
His daughters deny him his knights
Translate: I'll so carbonado his shanks!
I'll slice up his thighs like flank steak.
How does Edmund die?
Edgar stabs him.
Why does Gloucester think Edgar is trying to kill him?
Edmund tricks him
That's a wise man and a fool.
The fool
Where does Lear spiral into madness?
A raging storm!
Translate: I'll make a sop o'th' moonshine of you.
I'll make ground beef out of you!
How does Regan die?
Poisoned by Goneril
Why does Lear foolishly banish Cordelia?
He thinks she doesn't love him because she's not willing to flatter him like her sisters.
See't shalt thou never!
Cornwall
What makes Gloucester go crazy?
His eyes are stabbed out.
Translate: That's a shelled peascod.
That's an empty pea pod.
How does Oswald die?
Why does the Fool give Kent his fool's cap?
If not by birth, have lands by wit. All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.
Edmund
Why does Lear go crazy (i.e. why does he feel the way he feels)?
His ego is bruised. He used to be a powerful king and now he has let his daughters take that power away.
Translate: A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats!
You're a lowlife, a rascal who eats leftover scraps.
How does Goneril die?
Takes her own life after poisoning Regan
How is Gloucester further betrayed by Edmund?
I have a journey, sir, shortly to go.
Kent
What makes Edgar go crazy?
He is being blamed for conspiring to kill he father, which he is not actually doing.
Translate: I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar and daub the wall of a jakes with him.
Please let me grind this lowlife into a powder and use it to plaster up the bathroom walls.
How does Kent die?
Trick Question -- technically, the play doesn't include his death but it is inferred that he takes his own life.
Why does Lear foolishly ban Kent?
He was trying to encourage Lear to reconsider banishing Cordelia.