King Lear test

I absolutely despise king lear

Come, let’s away to prison:

We two alone will sing like birds i’ th’ cage:

When thou dost ask me blessing, I’ll kneel down

And ask of thee forgiveness…

(speaker)

Come, let’s away to prison:

We two alone will sing like birds i’ th’ cage:

When thou dost ask me blessing, I’ll kneel down

And ask of thee forgiveness…

(speaker)

Lear

Come, let’s away to prison:

We two alone will sing like birds i’ th’ cage:

When thou dost ask me blessing, I’ll kneel down

And ask of thee forgiveness…

(spoken TO)

Cordelia

Lady, I am not well; else I should answer

From a full-flowing stomach. General

Take thou my soldiers, prisoners, patrimony;

Dispose of them, of me; the walls in thine:

Witness the world, that I create thee here

My lord, and master.

(Speaker)

Regan

Shut your mouth, dame,

Or with this paper shall I stopple it.

(Speaker)

Albany

Shut your mouth, dame,

Or with this paper shall I stopple it.

(Spoken TO)

Goneril

Know my name is lost,

By treason’s tooth bare-gnawn and canker bit

Yet I am noble as the adversary

I come to cope

(Speaker)

Edgar

Know my name is lost,

By treason’s tooth bare-gnawn and canker bit

Yet I am noble as the adversary

I come to cope

(Spoken TO)

Edmund

Which of them shall I take?

Both? One? Or neither? Neither can be enjoyed

If both remain alive.

Edmund

Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life,

And thou no breath at all? Thou’lt come no more,

Never, never, never, never, never-

(Speaker)

Lear

Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life,

And thou no breath at all? Thou’lt come no more,

Never, never, never, never, never-

(Spoken to)

Cordelia

Vex not his ghost: O, let him pass! he hates him

That would upon the rack of this tough world

Stretch him out longer>

(Speaker)

Kent

Vex not his ghost: O, let him pass! he hates him

That would upon the rack of this tough world

Stretch him out longer.

(Spoken about)

Lear

Blow winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!

You cataracts and hurricanoes, sprout

Till you have drench’d our steeples, drown’d the casks

You sulphurous and thought-executing fires…

(Speaker)

Lear

Blow winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!

You cataracts and hurricanoes, sprout

Till you have drench’d our steeples, drown’d the casks

You sulphurous and thought-executing fires…

(also on stage)

The fool

Alack, alack ___________, I like not this unnatural dealing. When I desired their leave that I might pity him, they took from me the use of mine house, charged me on pain of perpetual displeasure neither to speak of him, entreat for him, or any way sustain him.

(Speaker)

Glouster

Alack, alack ___________, I like not this unnatural dealing. When I desired their leave that I might pity him, they took from me the use of mine house, charged me on pain of perpetual displeasure neither to speak of him, entreat for him, or any way sustain him.

(spoken to)

Edmund

Poor naked wretches, whereo’er you are

that bide the pelting of this piteous storm,

How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides

Your looped and windowed raggedness defend you

from seasons such as these? O, I have ta’en

too little care of this. Take physic pomp

Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel…

(speaker)

Lear

Away! the foul fiend follows me. Through the sharp hawthron blows the cold wind

(speaker)

Edgar

…Is man no more than this? consider him well. Thou ow’st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume… Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art. Off, off you lendings! Come, unbutton here.

(speaker)

Lear

…Is man no more than this? consider him well. Thou ow’st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume… Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art. Off, off you lendings! Come, unbutton here.

(about)

Edgar

I have o’erheard a plot of death upon him;

There is a litter ready; lay him in it,

And drive toward Dover, friend, where thou shalt

Meet welcome and protection. Take up thy master

(speaker)

Glouster

I have o’erheard a plot of death upon him;

There is a litter ready; lay him in it,

And drive toward Dover, friend, where thou shalt

Meet welcome and protection. Take up thy master

(about)

Lear

Because I would not see thy cruel nails

pluck out his poor old eyes, nor thy fierce sister

in his anointed flesh stick boarish fangs…

….But I shall see

That winged vengeance overtake such children

(Speaker)

Glouster

Because I would not see thy cruel nails

pluck out his poor old eyes, nor thy fierce sister

in his anointed flesh stick boarish fangs…

….But I shall see

That winged vengeance overtake such children

(spoken to)

Regan

I have no way and therefore want no eyes

I stumbled when I saw…

(speaker)

glouster

See thyself devil!

Proper deformity seems not in the fiend

so horrid as in women

(speaker)

albany

See thyself devil!

Proper deformity seems not in the fiend

so horrid as in women

(spoken to)

Goneril

My lord is dead; Edmund and I have talked;

An’ more convenient is he for my hand

than for your lady’s

(speaker)

Regan

My lord is dead; Edmund and I have talked;

An’ more convenient is he for my hand

than for your lady’s

(Spoken to)

Oswald

O, ho, are you there with me? No eyes in

Your head, nor no money in your purse?

Your eyes are in a heavy case, your purse in a light;

yet you see how this world goes

(speaker)

Lear

O, ho, are you there with me? No eyes in

Your head, nor no money in your purse?

Your eyes are in a heavy case, your purse in a light;

yet you see how this world goes

(spoken to)

glouster

O dear father,

It is thy business that I go about;

Therefore great France

My mourning and importuned tears hath pitied

no blown ambition doth our arms incite

but love, dear love, and our aged father’s right;

soon may i hear and see him

(Speaker)

Cordelia

Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality

(speaker)

Lear

Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality

(spoken to)

glouster

I do remember now; henceforth I’ll bear

Afflication till I do cry out itself

“enough, emough,” and die.

(speaker)

Glouster

I do remember now; henceforth I’ll bear

Afflication till I do cry out itself

“enough, emough,” and die.

(spoken to)

Edgar

Let him fly far.

Not in this land shall he remain uncaught;

and found —- dispatch. The noble Duke my master,

my worthy arch and patron comes tonight.

By his authority I will proclaim it

(speaker)

Glouster

Let him fly far.

Not in this land shall he remain uncaught;

and found —- dispatch. The noble Duke my master,

my worthy arch and patron comes tonight.

By his authority I will proclaim it

(about)

Edgar

Sir I am too old to learn.

Call not your stocks for me, I serve the King,

On whose employment I was sent to you

(speaker)

Kent

Sir I am too old to learn.

Call not your stocks for me, I serve the King,

On whose employment I was sent to you

(spoken to)

Cornwall

I heard myself proclaimed,

And by the happy hollow of a tree

Escaped the hunt. No port is free, no place

That guard and most unusual vigilance

does not attend my taking…

(Speaker)

Edgar

We’ll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee there’s no laboring i’ th’ winter. All that follow their noses are led by their eyes but blind men, and there’s not among twenty can smell him that’s stinking. Let go thy hold when a great wheel runs down a hill, lest it break thy neck with following. But the great one that goes upward, let him draw thee after…

(speaker)

The fool

We’ll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee there’s no laboring i’ th’ winter. All that follow their noses are led by their eyes but blind men, and there’s not among twenty can smell him that’s stinking. Let go thy hold when a great wheel runs down a hill, lest it break thy neck with following. But the great one that goes upward, let him draw thee after…

(Spoken to)

Kent

Nature in you stands on the very verge

Of his confine. You should be ruled and led by some discretion that discerns your state

Better than you yourself. Therefore, I pray you

That to our sister you do make return.

Say you have wronged her.

(speaker)

Regan

Nature in you stands on the very verge

Of his confine. You should be ruled and led by some discretion that discerns your state

Better than you yourself. Therefore, I pray you

That to our sister you do make return.

Say you have wronged her.

(spoken to)

Lear

Nature in you stands on the very verge

Of his confine. You should be ruled and led by some discretion that discerns your state

Better than you yourself. Therefore, I pray you

That to our sister you do make return.

Say you have wronged her.

(about)

Goneril

Oh, reason not the need. Our basset beggars

are in the poorest thing superfluous

Allow not nature more than nature needs,

Man’s life’s as cheap as beast’s. Thou art a lady.

If only to go warm were generous,

Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear’st

Which scarecely keeps thee warm. But for true need —

You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need

(speaker)

Lear

Shut up your doors, my lord, tis a wild night.

My Regan counsels well. Come out o’the storm.

(Spoken to)

glouster

Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave

My heart into my mouth: I love your majesty

According to my bond; no more nor less

(Speaker)

Cordelia

Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave

My heart into my mouth: I love your majesty

According to my bond; no more nor less

(spoken to)

Lear

He hath been out nine years, and away

he shall again. The King is coming.

(speaker)

glouster

He hath been out nine years, and away

he shall again. The King is coming.

(speaker)

Glouster

He hath been out nine years, and away

he shall again. The King is coming.

(spoken about)

Edmund

Five days we do allot thee for provision

to shield thee from diseases of the world,

And on the sixth to turn thy hated back

Upon our kingdom…

(Speaker)

Lear

Five days we do allot thee for provision

to shield thee from diseases of the world,

And on the sixth to turn thy hated back

Upon our kingdom…

(Spoken to)

Kent

Never, my lord: but I have heard him oft

maintain it to be fit, that, sons at perfect age,

and fathers declining, the father should be as

ward to the son, and the son manage his revenue…

(speaker)

Edmund

Never, my lord: but I have heard him oft

maintain it to be fit, that, sons at perfect age,

and fathers declining, the father should be as

ward to the son, and the son manage his revenue…

(spoken to)

Glouster

Never, my lord: but I have heard him oft

maintain it to be fit, that, sons at perfect age,

and fathers declining, the father should be as

ward to the son, and the son manage his revenue…

(about)

Edgar

I can keep honest counsel, ride, run, mar a curious

tale in telling it, and deliver a plain message

bluntly: that which ordinary men are fit for, I am

qualified in; and the best of me is diligence.

(Speaker)

Kent

I can keep honest counsel, ride, run, mar a curious

tale in telling it, and deliver a plain message

bluntly: that which ordinary men are fit for, I am

qualified in; and the best of me is diligence.

(spoken to)

Lear