King Lear Storyboard
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- "Is not this your son, my lord?" (I.i.8).
- “His breeding, sir, hath been at my charge. I have/ so often blushed to acknowledge him that now I am/ brazed to it” (I.i.9-11).
- “Know that we have divided/ In three our kingdom, and ‘tis our fast intent/ To shake all cares and business from our age,/ Conferring them on younger strengths” (I.i.38-41).
- "I cannot heave/ My heart into my mouth" (I.i.93-94).
- Sir, we love you more than words can say!
- Two noblemen, Gloucester and Kent, discuss King Lear’s decision to divide his kingdom. Gloucester introduces his illegitimate son, Edmund, who has been out of the country for years.
- "Thy dowerless daughter, King, thrown to my chance,/ Is queen of us, of ours, and our fair France" (I.i.258-259).
- "Here I disclaim all my paternal care,/ Propinquity and property of blood,/ And as a stranger to my heart and me/ Hold thee from this for ever" (I.i.115-118).
- At King Lear's palace, he announces his plan to divide the kingdom into three parts, for each of his three daughters. Lear demands to know which daughter loves him the most and asks them to publicly declare their love for him in order to distribute his power and authority over the kingdom accordingly.
- We must take over our father's remaining authority!
- “Pray you let's hit together. If our/ father carry authority with such disposition as he bears,/ this last surrender of his will but offend us” (I.i.304-306).
- After Lear asks his daughters how much they love him, Goneril and Regan respond with flattery, telling Lear that they love him above anything else. However, Cordelia refuses to speak and prefers to express her love for her father through her actions. When pressed, she says that she loves him exactly as much as a daughter should love her father, and that her sisters would not have husbands if they loved their father as much as they say.
- "Oh villain, villain! His very opinion in the letter!/ Abhorred villain! Unnatural, detested, brutish villain!" (I.ii.75-76).
- I am sorry father. I hope he did not mean what he wrote.
- I am going to kill my father and take over his land.
- My plan is working! Now my father will leave his land and power to me!
- Lear becomes enraged when Cordelia does not profess her love in an extreme way. His anger causes him to disown Cordelia, leaving her share of the kingdom to his two other daughters. The King of France who values Cordelia for her honesty, decides to make her his queen.
- Goneril and Regan scheme together in secrecy to take over their father’s remaining power and authority.
- Edmund resents his legitimate half-brother, Edgar, who stands to inherit their fathers land and possessions. Edmund forges a letter pretending to be Edgar in order to gain Gloucester’s acceptance, while discrediting his brother. After watching Edmund attempt to hide the letter, Gloucester demands to read it. The letter informs Gloucester that Edgar has been plotting against him in an effort to gain his riches.
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