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- King Lear Act I
- KING LEAR ACT IWilliam Shakespeare
- Act I Scene iInside Lear's Palace
- What says our second daughter, Our dearest Regan, wife of Cornwall? Speak.
- I am made of that self metal as my sister, And prize me at her worth. / And yet not so, since I am sure my love's More ponderous than my tongue.
- Act I Scene iInside Lear's Palace
- Here I disclaim all my paternal care, Propinquity and property of blood,
- This is a story about a king's abuse to power and ego, and how this leads to the loss loved ones in his life. Act I is the initiation to the troubles created within the King's kingdom.
- Act I Scene iiInside Gloucester's Castle
- 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 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
- King Lear decides how much land he will be inheriting with his daughters based on how much they express their love for him.
- Act I Scene iiInside Gloucester's Castle
- Some villain hath done me wrong.
- Because Coredlia, Lear's youngest and most beloved daughter, expresses that there is no need for an explanation to love for him, the king chooses to disown her without any fortune or dowery. Kent, Lear's most loyal soldier, speaks honestly of his wrong decision, and as well, gets banished by King Lear.
- Act I Scene iiiInside the Duke of Albany's palace
- Edmund, who is known as the illegitimate son of Gloucester, feels that societal attitude towards people like him is descrminating and is not able to inherit land, therefore, plans to set his brother, Edgar, and his father up against each other through a letter that Edgar supposedly wrote planning his father's assasination.
- Now that Gloucester is furious with Edgar, Edmund explains vaguley to Edgar how he needs to leave immediately, armoured. He also tells him to avoid his father, Gloucester, to make this seem more suspicious.
- Pray ye, go! There's my key. If you do stir abroad, go armed.
- Goneril realizes that her father, King Lear, has gone too far with his irriational decisions by physcially abusing her people. She tells her steward, Oswald, to send a letter to her sister, Regan, letting her know of all the troubles and that their father may leave for her residence next.
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