33. Question, discussion. 35. Write happy, write yourself down as lucky. 36. Carry it so manage it in the way. It was to appear as if Cordelia had put an end to herself. 40. Strain, breeding or descent. equitably. 45. Equally: people. 50. Impress'd lances: our service. = = the feelings of the common the men we have pressed into Our... which. The antecedent to which must be taken out of our (= of us). 62. We list. The proper English would be us lists. List in olde English is always an impersonal verb. 66. Immediacy. In the literal sense of the word-without any mediate or third person between me and him. He represented our place and person in the closest possible manner. He is therefore your peer. 69. Your addition the title you confer upon him. 70. Compeers is the equal of. 75. Full-flowing stomach anger. with limitless pride and 80. Let-alone power of hindering. 84. On on the charge of. 90. An interlude, a play within a play-a plot within a plot. 98. What whate'er. 104. Single virtue = = individual valor. 122. Bare-gnawn, as trees are by goats. 131. My profession as a knight. 132. Maugre, a form of malgré, in spite of. 133. Fire-new-brand-new, fresh from the mint. 137. Upward, an adverb used as a noun. 144. Say: tone and accent. 145. Nicely with due regard to knightly etiquette. 152. Practice, a plot. 156. This paper. The paper in which Goneril offered to make away with Albany, that she might marry Edmund. 175. The wheel of events. Shakespeare believed in the absolute justice of Providence. 197. Flaw'd broken. 205. A period, a termination of the story. 206. Another = one more horrible circumstance or event. 209. Big in clamor, loud in exclamation of sorrow. 215. And him himself. 236. Aye good-night = an eternal good night. 246. Be brief be quick about it. 250. Token, sign to guarantee the message. (Token is the noun from teach. The guttural, which is a gh in taught, becomes a k in token.) 256. Fordid = destroyed. The for here has the negative power it possesses in forget, forgo (forego), etc. 264. Promis'd end of the world. 265. Or image or likeness, or imitation.-Fall and cease. The fall or end and cessation of everything that relates to Lear and his family. Cease is a noun. 283. This is forms one syllable. 290. Nor no man else. No stranger would be welcome to such a collection of horrible sights. 293. Desperately, in or through despair. 298. Decay: 301. Resign. you, a case of zeugma, the word resign being taken in two senses. 302. Boot, something given to make amends. 306. My poor fool, Cordelia. The word fool is frequently used by Shakespeare as a term of endearment and pity. 310. Pray you undo this button. Lear is almost bursting with the passion of grief. Leigh Hunt thinks this the most pathetic line in all literature. 323. My master calls me. Cf. the resolution expressed by Horatio in the last scene of Hamlet. EXAMINATION PAPERS. [See Plan for Perfect Possession, p. viii.] A. 1. Write a short account of the events in the First Act. 2. What is the function of Kent in the play? 3. State by whom, of whom, and on what occasions the following lines were uttered :— (a) Let pride, which she calls plainness, marry her. (6) Kill thy physician, and thy fee bestow Upon the foul disease. (c) These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us. (a) Put on what weary negligence you please. (e) I am asham'd That thou hast power to shake my manhood thus. 4. Explain and annotate the following words and phrases: Speech unable; set my rest; our potency made good; monsters it; still (the adverb); grossly; respects of fortune; done upon the gad; needless diffidences; the worships of their name; each buzz; attasked. 5. Give some examples, from the First Act, of nouns with eď used as adjectives. 190 6. Explain the phrase, You were best; and .quote examples to show Shakespeare's use of it. B. 1. Contrast the characters of Cornwall and Albany, and give quotations to justify your view. 2. State by whom, of whom, and on what occasions the following lines were uttered: (a) I found him pight to do it. (b) Occasions, noble Gloster, of some poise. (c) Reneague, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks. (e) To bandy hasty words, to scant my sizes. (f) He is attended with a desperate train. 3. Annotate the words in italics in the above lines. 4. Explain and annotate the following words and phrases: Advise yourself; suggestion and practice; addition; a deal of man; a one-trunk-inheriting slave; too intrinse t' unloose; poor pelting villages; flying off; tender-hefted. 5. Give instances of Shakespeare's use of adjectives as verbs. 6. Give examples of Shakespeare's inconsistent use of the prefixes in and un. C. 1. Write a short account of the sub-plot of Gloster and Edmund; and explain in what respects it has enabled Shakespeare to develop the main plot more fully. 2. Contrast the characters of Regan and Goneril; and give quotations in support of your views. 3. State by whom, of whom, and on what occasions the following lines were uttered : (a) Vaunt-courier of oak-cleaving thunder-bolts. (b) Thou perjured and thou simular of virtue. (c) France spreads his banners in our noiseless land. (d) Cure this great breach in his abused nature. (e) His grief grew puissant, and the strings of life Began to crack. 4. Explain and annotate the following words and phrases: Punish home; prevent; censured; stand in assured loss; stellëd fires; sliver; the clearest gods; trick; heartless; matter and impertinency; the death-practis'd duke; immediacy; poor fool; fordone themselves; with boot; the gor'd state. 5. Give some examples of Shakespeare's use of that-as. 6. Give some examples of Shakespeare's use of bide and take. 7. Write down the verses of the old ballads quoted in the play; and state the sources from which they have been taken. |