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- “I have a son, sir, by order of law, some year elder than this, who yet is no dearer in my account…the shoreson must be acknowledged” (I.i.19-24)
- Is not this your son, my lord? (I.I.8)
- “Know that we have divided/ In three our kingdom…Conferring them on younger strengths while we/ Unburdened crawl toward death…Tell me, my daughters…Which of you shall we say doth love us most?” (I.i.38-52)
- “Nothing my Lord.”(I.i.89) “I cannot heave/ My heart into my mouth. I love your Majesty/ According to my bond, no more nor less.” (I.i.94-95)
- “Here I disclaim all my paternal care, Propinquity and property of blood, And as a stranger to my heart and me” (I.i.115-118)
- Kent and Gloucester have a conversation about his bastard son, Edmund. He understands that his son needs to be acknowledged , as he values his bastard son the same amount as his legitimate son, Edgar. This conversation introduces one of the major issues of the play.
- “A credulous father and a brother noble, Whose nature is so far from doing harms / That he suspects none; on whose foolish honesty/ My practices ride easy! I see the business.Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit; All with me’s meet that I can fashion fit.” (I.ii.176-81)
- Lear discusses splitting the ownership of the kingdom to his daughters, Cordelia, Goneril and Regan, as he is nearing his end. He decides to split the kingdom based on how much his daughter’s say they love him.
- “By day and night, he wrongs me!...I’ll not endure it. His knights grow riotous, and himself upbraids us/ On every trifle. When he returns from hunting, I will not speak with him…Put on what weary negligence you please…If he distate it, let him to my sister” (I.iii. 4-15)
- Goneril and Regan provide King Lear the flattery that he expects, whereas Cordelia can’t bring herself to lie exceedingly like her sisters. King Lear, hurt and mad at Cordelia’s response to his question, decides to remove her dowry.
- “ ‘My lady’s father’? My lord’s knave! You whoreson dog! You slave! You cur!” (I.IV.77-78)
- “Come you hither, sir. Who am I, sir?” (I.IV.75)
- “My lady’s father” (I.IV.76)
- Edmund is furious about the legitimacy that differentiates him from his half-brother, Edgar. Due to this, Edmund decides to frame Edgar by handing a fake letter to his father. This letter lists that Edgar wishes to cause misfortune to his father, effectively seperating father and son.
- Goneril is annoyed by the havoc her father and his men are causing in her household. Not being able to stand his trouble, she begins to plan with her servant, Oswald, to make him leave by treating her father rudely.
- “Very well, madam” (I.iii.23)
- Lear discusses splitting the ownership of the kingdom to his daughters, Cordelia, Goneril and Regan, as he is nearing his end. He decides to split the kingdom based on how much his daughter’s say they love him. (Cordelia being his favorite was essentially guaranteed the most.)
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