Lear, 1.1 [imperatives]
“Speak” “give” “attend” “mend”
Lear, 1.1
“Her price is fall’n”
Lear, 4.7
“I am a very foolish, fond old man”
Edmund, 1.2
Refuses to “stand in the plague of custom”
France, 1.1
“That art most rich being poor”
Mark R. Schwehn
“Edgar decides to become a beggar, not just any other disguise, because he feels worthless”
Colie
“Lear and Gloucester’s realisation about the poor threatens the aristocratic code of the time”
Dollimore
“Lear loses his mind when he loses his social status”
Kenneth Muir
On Edgar
“The roles he plays are the means by which he matures into royalty”