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Summary A level King Lear revision thematic notes

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Course
King Lear

Institution
AQA

Book
Hamlet

Revising for King Lear? You will find an extensive summary of quotes per theme spanning the whole text. Alongside these and annotated class notes, I got A*. I would recommend learning 5 per theme so that you are ready when it comes to the exam!

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king lear
lear
shakespeare
machiavellian
machiavelli
parenting
female
power
emerging
capitalism
nothing
nothingness
folly
plot
sight
values
fealty
supernatural
chaos
disease
vulnerability
madness
whee

Book Title:Hamlet

Author(s):William Shakespeare

Edition:Unknown
ISBN:9782377930999
Edition:Unknown

Study Level
A/AS Level
Examinator
AQA
Subject
English Literature A
Unit
King Lear

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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

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