DISSECTING SHAKESPEARE DISSECTING KING LEAR KING LEAR ACT 1 SCENE 2

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DISSECTING SHAKESPEARE | DISSECTING KING LEAR | KING LEAR ACT 1 SCENE 2 • Watch Jackie, Henry, Kathryn, and Miranda act through act 1 scene 2 of William Shakespeare's KING LEAR and then talk about what happened in the scene. • https://shakespearereadingsociety.co.... • https://shakespearereadingsociety.co.... • Act 1 • Scene 2 • The Earl of Gloucester's castle. • Enter EDMUND, with a letter • 1.2.1 EDMUND • Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy law • My services are bound. Wherefore should I • Stand in the plague of custom, and permit • The curiosity of nations to deprive me, • For that I am some twelve or fourteen moon-shines • Lag of a brother? Why bastard? wherefore base? • When my dimensions are as well compact, • My mind as generous, and my shape as true, • As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us • With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base? • Who, in the lusty stealth of nature, take • More composition and fierce quality • Than doth, within a dull, stale, tired bed, • Go to the creating a whole tribe of fops, • Got 'tween asleep and wake? Well, then, • Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land: • Our father's love is to the bastard Edmund • As to the legitimate: fine word, – legitimate! • Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed, • And my invention thrive, Edmund the base • Shall top the legitimate. I grow; I prosper: • Now, gods, stand up for bastards! • Enter GLOUCESTER • 1.2.23 GLOUCESTER • Kent banish'd thus! and France in choler parted! • And the king gone tonight! subscribed his power! • Confined to exhibition! All this done • Upon the gad! Edmund, how now! what news? • 1.2.27 EDMUND • So please your lordship, none. • Putting up the letter • 1.2.28 GLOUCESTER • Why so earnestly seek you to put up that letter? • 1.2.29 EDMUND • I know no news, my lord. • 1.2.30 GLOUCESTER • What paper were you reading? • 1.2.31 EDMUND • Nothing, my lord. • 1.2.32 GLOUCESTER • No? What needed, then, that terrible dispatch of • it into your pocket? the quality of nothing hath • not such need to hide itself. Let's see: come, • if it be nothing, I shall not need spectacles. • 1.2.36 EDMUND • I beseech you, sir, pardon me: it is a letter • from my brother, that I have not all o'er-read; • and for so much as I have perused, I find it not • fit for your o'er-looking. • 1.2.40 GLOUCESTER • Give me the letter, sir. • 1.2.41 EDMUND • I shall offend, either to detain or give it. The • contents, as in part I understand them, are to blame. • 1.2.43 GLOUCESTER • Let's see, let's see. • 1.2.44 EDMUND • I hope, for my brother's justification, he wrote • this but as an essay or taste of my virtue. • 1.2.46 GLOUCESTER • [Reads] 'This policy and reverence of age makes • the world bitter to the best of our times; keeps • our fortunes from us till our oldness cannot relish • them. I begin to find an idle and fond bondage • in the oppression of aged tyranny; who sways, not • as it hath power, but as it is suffered. Come to • me, that of this I may speak more. If our father • would sleep till I waked him, you should enjoy half his • revenue for ever, and live the beloved of your • brother, Edgar.' • Hum – conspiracy! – 'Sleep till I waked him, – you • should enjoy half his revenue,' – My son Edgar! • Had he a hand to write this? a heart and brain • to breed it in? – When came this to you? who • brought it? • 1.2.61 EDMUND • It was not brought me, my lord; there's the • cunning of it; I found it thrown in at the • casement of my closet. • 1.2.64 GLOUCESTER • You know the character to be your brother's? • 1.2.65 EDMUND • If the matter were good, my lord, I durst swear • it were his; but, in respect of that, I would • fain think it were not. • 1.2.68 GLOUCESTER • It is his. • 1.2.69 EDMUND • It is his hand, my lord; but I hope his heart is • not in the contents. • 1.2.71 GLOUCESTER • Hath he never heretofore sounded you in this business? • 1.2.72 EDMUND • Never, my lord: but I have heard him oft • maintain it to be fit, that, sons at perfect age, • and fathers declining, the father should be as • ward to the son, and the son manage his revenue. • 1.2.76 GLOUCESTER • O villain, villain! His very opinion in the • letter! Abhorred villain! Unnatural, detested, • brutish villain! worse than brutish! Go, sirrah, • seek him; I'll apprehend him: abominable villain! • Where is he? • 1.2.81 EDMUND • I do not well know, my lord. If it shall please • you to suspend your indignation against my • brother till you can derive from him better • testimony of his intent, you shall run a certain • course; where, if you violently proceed against • him, mistaking his purpose, it would make a great • gap in your own honour, and shake in pieces the • heart of his obedience. I dare pawn down my life • for him, that he hath wrote this to feel my • affection to your honour, and to no further • pretence of danger. • [ETC...]

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