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King Lear
King Lear Quiz
King Lear Discussion
1. What does Lear do with the “coronet” (the small, breakable crown) in act 1, scene 1?
a. Breaks it in half himself
b. Breaks it into thirds
c. Gives it to Albany and Cornwall to break in half
d. Throws it at Cordelia
1. What do we make of Lear's decision to divide his kingdom through the performance of a "love contest"? What does this tell us about Lear as a character? About his ideas of authority/kingship/power? How does this decision position us towards Lear as readers?
2. Who marries Cordelia despite her disinheritance?
a. Burgundy
b. France
c. Gloucester
d. Albany
2. Along with this, King Lear brings the political sphere and the domestic/familial sphere into contact with one another to often disastrous ends. Where do we see this interaction between the political and domestic play out most crucially and to what effect?
3. True or False: Edmund plans to turn Gloucester against Edgar in order to rise in social status.
3. The opening acts of King Lear are heavily concerned with human value and worth. How do characters define these terms/provide competing definitions of human value? Who is "valuable," who is not, and why?
4. When Lear visits Goneril, what does she demand of him?
a. That he crown her as sole queen
b. That he execute Cordelia
c. That he send away his Fool
d. That he send away some of his knights
4. What do we make of Edmund as a character in this play? Is he a straight up "Machiavel" figure like Othello's Iago (a figure of umotivated villainy and evil)? Or is he more complicated? How does the play potentially complicate him?
5. Why is Kent (disguised as Caius) put in the stocks outside Gloucester's castle?
a. For insulting Regan
b. For beating up Oswald
c. For making fun of Gloucester
d. For fighting Lear's Fool