Gloucester talking about Edgar betraying him
'’O madam, my old heart its cracked, it’s cracked’’
Gloucester describing Edmund
'’Loyal and natural boy’’
Kent insulting Oswald
’’ A knave, a rascal, a beggar… the son and heir of a mongrel bitch’’
Cornwall talking to Kent
'’Fetch forth the stocks… we’ll teach you’’
Edgar transformation to Tom
'’Edgar i nothing am’’
Fool talking about Lear’s knights deserting him
’’ Let go thy hold when a great wheel runs down a hill lest it break thy neck with following it’’
Regan talking about Lear
’’ O sir you are old, you should be ruled an led’’
Lear suggesting to Goneril that she should be more sympathetic to him due to his age
’’ art not thou ashamed to look upon this beard’’
Regan telling Lear that only one person can be in charge at her house
’’ How in one house, should so many people, under two commands hold amity?’’
Lear talking about what he gave
Lear: ‘’ I gave you all’’
Regan: ‘’ And in good time i gave it’’
Goneril and Regan suggesting that Lear should get rid of his knights
G:’’ What need you five and twenty? Ten? or five?
R: ‘ what need one?’
Lear reacting to Goneril and Regan suggesting him to get rid of his knights
’’ O reason not the need. Our basest beggars/ Are in the poorest superfluous’’
Regan and Cornwall telling to shut Lear out
’’ Shut up your doors’’
