Theme quotes
Machiavellian:
Sir, I shall study deserving (ed)
I must have your land (ed)
Well, my legitimate takes out letter (ed)
My invention thrive (ed)
Pat, he comes…Fa,sol, la me (ed)
If not by birth, have lands by wit…fashion fit (ed)
On whose foolish honesty my practices ride easy (ed)
The better, the best…this weaves itself into my business (ed)
Follows but for form (f)
Give ear sir to my sister (re)
Letters
A love that makes breath poor and speech unable (g)
Glib and oily art (c)
Such a tongue that I am glad I have not (c)
True or false it has made thee Earl of Gloucester (co)
Warped looks (about R+G)
Be simple answered for we know the truth (re)
One side will mock the other (re)
Let him smell his way back to Dover
Thou art a fiend, a woman’s shape doth shield thee alb
Great ignorance, Gloucester’s eyes out. Where he arrives he moves all hearts
against us reg
Conceit may rob the treasury of life, when itself yields to theft edg
Robes and furred gowns hide all l
Get thee glass eyes l
Which of them shall I take ed
Gilded butterflies l
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say edg
Parenting:
Good sport at his making gl...dull stale tired bed ed
I disclaim all my parental care le
Now gods, stand up for bastards ed
Bond cracked ‘twixt son and father gl
Into her womb convey sterility le
Love and natural boy, I’ll work the means to make thee capable gl
My breath and blood! (l tore)
Divorce me from thy mother’s tomb le
Her eyes are fierce but thine do comfort and not burn le
I gave you all le
, Art thou not afraid to look upon this beard le
I had a son now outlawed from my blood gl
I will persevere in my course of loyalty…conflict between me and blood edm
Regan plucks Gloucester’s beard
The winged vengeance overtake such children gl
Edmond enkindle all the sparks of nature to stop this horrid act gl
The oldest hath borne most edg
Female power:
I will not speak with him (g)
Whose mind and mine I know in that are one (g)
Lear’s shadow (fo)
Thou hast power to shake my manhood thus (l)
Hysterica passio! (about lear)
You should be ruled and led by some discretion that discerns your state better then
yourself (re)
Kneels(l)
Give ear sir to my sister (r)
Let not women’s weapons, water drops stain man’s cheeks (l)
Shut up your doors (r)
Fair woman… mouths made of glass (foo)
Pelican daughters (l)
Daughter’s hard commands (gl)
Hang him instantly(r) Pluck out his eyes (g)
I marvel our mild husband gon
Give the distaff into my husband’s hands gon
Being widow and my Gloucester with her gon
Unpublished virtue of earth spring with my tears be aidant and remediate cor
Down from the waist they’re centaurs l
Take thou my soldiers...dispose of them, of me; walls is thine re
Emerging capitalism:
Qualities are so weighted gl
That we our largest bounty may extend le
Self mettle as my sister and prize me at my worth c
Propinquity and property of blood le
Her price is fallen...take her or leave her le
Dimensions are as well compact...shape as true ed
Serves and seeks for gain follows but for form f
What nature needs not though gorgest, wearest, scarcely keeps her warm le
How light and portable my pain seems now le
Anatomise Regan see what breeds about her heart le
And I’ll repair the misery… with something rich about me gl
He that helps take all my outward worth cor
Machiavellian:
Sir, I shall study deserving (ed)
I must have your land (ed)
Well, my legitimate takes out letter (ed)
My invention thrive (ed)
Pat, he comes…Fa,sol, la me (ed)
If not by birth, have lands by wit…fashion fit (ed)
On whose foolish honesty my practices ride easy (ed)
The better, the best…this weaves itself into my business (ed)
Follows but for form (f)
Give ear sir to my sister (re)
Letters
A love that makes breath poor and speech unable (g)
Glib and oily art (c)
Such a tongue that I am glad I have not (c)
True or false it has made thee Earl of Gloucester (co)
Warped looks (about R+G)
Be simple answered for we know the truth (re)
One side will mock the other (re)
Let him smell his way back to Dover
Thou art a fiend, a woman’s shape doth shield thee alb
Great ignorance, Gloucester’s eyes out. Where he arrives he moves all hearts
against us reg
Conceit may rob the treasury of life, when itself yields to theft edg
Robes and furred gowns hide all l
Get thee glass eyes l
Which of them shall I take ed
Gilded butterflies l
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say edg
Parenting:
Good sport at his making gl...dull stale tired bed ed
I disclaim all my parental care le
Now gods, stand up for bastards ed
Bond cracked ‘twixt son and father gl
Into her womb convey sterility le
Love and natural boy, I’ll work the means to make thee capable gl
My breath and blood! (l tore)
Divorce me from thy mother’s tomb le
Her eyes are fierce but thine do comfort and not burn le
I gave you all le
, Art thou not afraid to look upon this beard le
I had a son now outlawed from my blood gl
I will persevere in my course of loyalty…conflict between me and blood edm
Regan plucks Gloucester’s beard
The winged vengeance overtake such children gl
Edmond enkindle all the sparks of nature to stop this horrid act gl
The oldest hath borne most edg
Female power:
I will not speak with him (g)
Whose mind and mine I know in that are one (g)
Lear’s shadow (fo)
Thou hast power to shake my manhood thus (l)
Hysterica passio! (about lear)
You should be ruled and led by some discretion that discerns your state better then
yourself (re)
Kneels(l)
Give ear sir to my sister (r)
Let not women’s weapons, water drops stain man’s cheeks (l)
Shut up your doors (r)
Fair woman… mouths made of glass (foo)
Pelican daughters (l)
Daughter’s hard commands (gl)
Hang him instantly(r) Pluck out his eyes (g)
I marvel our mild husband gon
Give the distaff into my husband’s hands gon
Being widow and my Gloucester with her gon
Unpublished virtue of earth spring with my tears be aidant and remediate cor
Down from the waist they’re centaurs l
Take thou my soldiers...dispose of them, of me; walls is thine re
Emerging capitalism:
Qualities are so weighted gl
That we our largest bounty may extend le
Self mettle as my sister and prize me at my worth c
Propinquity and property of blood le
Her price is fallen...take her or leave her le
Dimensions are as well compact...shape as true ed
Serves and seeks for gain follows but for form f
What nature needs not though gorgest, wearest, scarcely keeps her warm le
How light and portable my pain seems now le
Anatomise Regan see what breeds about her heart le
And I’ll repair the misery… with something rich about me gl
He that helps take all my outward worth cor
