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NAME: NIVETHA SIVAKUMAR (F2E)

BOOK: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S KING LEAR
DATE: 1ST FEBRUARY 2021
ASSIGNMENT: LIT CIRCLE- KING LEAR
 -Illustrator-
NAME: NIVETHA SIVAKUMAR (F2E)
BOOK: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S KING LEAR
DATE: 1ST FEBRUARY 2021
ASSIGNMENT: LIT CIRCLE- KING LEAR
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I heard myself proclaimed,
And by the happy hollow of a tree
Escaped the hunt. No port is free, no place
That guard and most unusual vigilance
5Does not attend my taking. Whiles I may ’scape,
I will preserve myself, and am bethought
To take the basest and most poorest shape
That ever penury in contempt of man
Brought near to beast. My face I’ll grime with filth,
10Blanket my loins, elf all my hair in knots,
And with presented nakedness outface
The winds and persecutions of the sky.
The country gives me proof and precedent
Of Bedlam beggars, who with roaring voices
15Strike in their numbed and mortified bare arms
Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary,
And with this horrible object from low farms,
Poor pelting villages, sheepcotes, and mills,
Sometime with lunatic bans, sometime with prayers,
20Enforce their charity. “Poor Turlygod!” “Poor Tom!”—
That’s something yet. Edgar I nothing am
. all.
Exit
EDGAR
I heard myself declared an outlaw and escaped
capture by hiding in the trunk of a hollow tree.
Every town and port is crawling with henchmen
on the lookout, waiting to capture me. But I’ll
survive while I can. I’ve decided to disguise
myself as the lowliest and rattiest beggar that
mankind has ever seen. I’ll smear my face with
filth, put on a loincloth, make my hair matted and
tangled, and face the bad weather wearing almost
nothing. I’ve seen beggars out of insane asylums
who stick pins and nails into their numb arms.
They pray or roar lunatic curses, horrifying
farmers and villagers into giving them alms.
“Poor crazy Tom!” they call themselves. Well, at
least that’s something. As Edgar, I’m nothing at
 The scene opens on Edgar, alone in the woods. In his soliloquy, Edgar relates
that he is aware of his outlaw status. Thus far, he has escaped capture by hiding
in the "happy hollow of a tree" (II.3.2), but he knows that to remain free, he
must mask himself.

 Edgar lays forth a plan in which he will disguise himself as a Bedlam beggar,
smearing dirt on his face and body, tying his hair in knots, and covering his
body with a blanket. In this costume, he will be known as Poor Tom.
 FOOL
FOOL
Ha, ha! That’s a nasty garter belt.
Ha, ha! Look, he wears cruel
You tie up horses by their heads,
garters. Horses are tied by the
dogs and bears by their necks,
heads, dogs and bears by the
monkeys by their waists, and
neck, monkeys by the loins, and
humans by their legs. When a
men by the legs. When a man’s
person’s prone to wanderlust, he
over lusty at legs, then he wears
has to wear wooden socks, like a
wooden nether-stocks.
chastity belt around his ankles.
CLUE :KING LEAR IS VERY ANGRY .

CLUE : KING LEAR MENTIONED ABOUT DRUM

WHEN HE WAS TALKING TO GLOUCESTER
LEAR
The king would speak with Cornwall. The dear father
Would with his daughter speak, commands, tends service.
Are they “informed” of this? My breath and blood!
“Fiery”? The “fiery” duke? Tell the hot duke that Lear—
95No, but not yet. Maybe he is not well.
Infirmity doth still neglect all office
Whereto our health is bound. We are not ourselves
When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind
To suffer with the body. I’ll forbear,
100And am fallen out with my more headier will
To take the indisposed and sickly fit
For the sound man.
(notices KENT again)
   Death on my state! Wherefore
Should he sit here? This act persuades me
105That this remotion of the duke and her
Is practice only. Give me my servant forth.
Go tell the duke and ’s wife I’d speak with them—
Now, presently. Bid them come forth and hear me,
Or at their chamber door I’ll beat the drum
110Till it cry sleep to death.
LEAR
The king wants to speak with Cornwall. The father wants to
speak with his daughter. He orders them—he begs them.
Did you inform them of that? This is unbelievable!
“Passionate”? The “passionate” duke? Tell the hot-headed
duke that I… But no, not yet. Maybe he’s not feeling well.
When we’re ill we can’t carry out our duties as well as when
we’re healthy. When our bodies are out of order, our minds
can’t function properly. I’ll hold off, and subdue my
impulsive temper, which makes me judge a sick man as if
he were well. (he notices KENT again) A curse on my royal
power! Why should he sit here like this? The fact that they
punished him convinces me that Regan and the duke are
avoiding me on purpose. I want my servant released. Go tell
the duke and his wife I’ll speak to them right now, at once.
Tell them to come here and hear me out, or else I’ll beat a
drum at their bedroom door until they can’t sleep any more.
CLUE : KING LEAR MEETS REGAN
AND DUKE OF CORNWALL
LEAR
     Ask her forgiveness? LEAR
Do you but mark how this becomes the Apologize? Do you think this kind of thing
house?— is appropriate for the royal family? (he
(kneels) “Dear daughter, I confess that I kneels) “Dear daughter, I admit I’m old.
am old. Old people are useless. I’m begging you, on
Age is unnecessary. On my knees I beg my knees, to give me food, clothes, and a
That you’ll vouchsafe me raiment, bed, bed.”
and food.”

REGAN
REGAN
150Good sir, no more. These are unsightly
No more, please. These are ugly antics. Go
tricks.
back to my sister’s.
Return you to my sister.
CLUE : KENT (KING LEAR’S
MESSENGER )
LEAR
Who stocked my servant? Regan, I have good
hope
Thou didst not know on ’t.—Who comes here? O
heavens,
185If you do love old men, if your sweet sway
Allow obedience, if yourselves are old,
Make it your cause. Send down, and take my
part!
(to GONERIL) Art not ashamed to look upon this
beard?—
O Regan, wilt thou take her by the hand?
LEAR
Who put my servant in the stocks? Regan,
I hope you didn’t know anything about
that.—Ah, who’s this? Dear gods, if you
love old men like me, if you believe in
obedience, if you yourselves are old, then
please send me down some
help! (to GONERIL) Aren’t you ashamed
to look at me after the way you’ve treated
me in my old age?—Oh, Regan, are you
taking her by the hand?
 In this section, Shakespeare focuses on what loyalty means to several of these
characters. Gloucester is depicted as an impotent old man, given to making peace and
offering soothing remarks. He is loyal to Lear, but ineffectual in his loyalty. Kent is
also loyal to the king and rejects the Fool's advice to find a protector who is on the
ascent and not the descent. It is possible to regard the Fool's advice as a test of Kent's
loyalty. If this is a test, Kent easily passes. Kent is loyal to the king, as is the Fool,
who declines to take his own advice — because he is a fool, he says. In fact, the
suggestion that Kent should find a protector who is on the ascent is what Edmund has
already done. Edmund sees Cornwall as the stronger of the sisters' husbands, and so
he links his prospects to those of Cornwall. But, unlike Gloucester, Kent, and the
Fool, Edmund's ultimate loyalty is to himself.
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