Tag: King Lear

  • December 11

    December 11

    Pious Pervert


    Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand!
    Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip thine own back.
    Thou hotly lusts to use her in that kind
    For which thou whip’st her.

    –King Lear,
    Act IV, Scene vi

  • November 11

    November 11

    String of Insults


    A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud,
    shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy,
    worsted-stocking knave; a lily-liver’d, action-taking, whoreson.

    King Lear,
    Act II, Scene ii

  • October 7

    October 7

    Inflammatory


    Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle
    in my corrupted blood… But I’ll not chide thee.

    -King Lear,
    Act II, Scene ii

  • September 5

    September 5

    Extra


    Thou whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter!

    -King Lear,
    Act II, Scene ii

  • August 24

    August 24

    Star-Glazing


    An admirable evasion of man,
    to lay his disposition to the charge of a star.

    –King Lear,
    Act I, Scene ii