One-Word Answers
This person wounds Edmund.
Who is Edmund?
Curan shares this rumor with Edmund.
What is a division between Albany and Cornwall which could lead to war?
Gloucester appeals unsuccessfully to Cornwall, Regan, and Goneril to do this.
What is relent and call Lear back?
Edgar will go by this name when in disguise.
What is "Poor Tom"?
This word means "the killing of a parent or other near relative."
What is "parricide"?
Those released from the Bethlehem hospital for the insane and were given a license to beg were known as _____.
What were Bedlam beggars?
Edmund convinces Edgar to flee by _____.
What is telling about Gloucester's anger with Edgar?
This is "worse than murder" in Lear's opinion.
What is putting his messenger in stocks?
This person argues and fights with Kent outside Gloucester's castle.
Who is Oswald?
Because he is very pleased with Edmund's loyalty, Gloucester promises _____.
What is Edmund will inherit Gloucester's wealth?
This was Lear's first complaint when he sees Regan.
What is Goneril's treatment of him?
The Fool says the following:
Fathers that wear rags
Do make their children blind,
But fathers that bear bags
Shall see their children kind?
He means this by this quote.
What is Lear's foolishness in giving away his kingdom?
This person defends Kent and tries to dissuade Cornwall from using the stocks.
Who is Gloucester?
This is the reason Lear refuses to stay with either Goneril or Regan.
What is he does not want the humiliation that will come with having to see his train reduced?
Regan and Cornwall claim to be visiting Gloucester for this reason.
What is to get Gloucester's advice on what to do about the differences between Goneril and Lear?
This person said the following:
I abjure all roofs, and choose
To wage against the enmity o' the air,
To be a comrade with the wolf and owl,
Necessity's sharp pinch!
Who is King Lear?
While in the stocks, Kent reads a letter from this person.
Who is Cordelia?
Kent is placed in stocks for this reason.
What is being rude and disrespectful to Cornwall?
This is the weather that signifies the end of Act II.
What is stormy?
"I have full cause of weeping, but this heart
Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws
Or ere I'll weep. O Fool, I shall go _____!"
What is "mad"?