Year 12 IB Extended Essays 2017

LEAR

Does any here know me? Why, this is not Lear.

Doth Lear walk thus? Speak thus? Where are his eyes?

Either his notion weakens, or his discernings

Are lethargied. Ha, sleeping or waking?

Sure, ’tis not so.

Who is it that can tell me who I am?

Act 4

Scene 4, Line 2 (Appendix 4)

CORDELIA

Alack, ’tis he. Why, he was met even now

As mad as the vexed sea, singing aloud,

Crowned with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds,

With burdocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers,

Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow

In our sustaining corn.—A century send forth.

Search every acre in the high-grown field,

And bring him to our eye.

Scene 6, Line 132 (Appendix 5)

GLOUCESTER

The trick of that voice I do well remember:

Is 't not the king?

KING LEAR

Ay, every inch a king:

When I do stare, see how the subject quakes.

I pardon that man's life. What was thy cause? Adultery?

Thou shalt not die: die for adultery! No:

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