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开 本: 128开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装-胶订是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9787500146476
CONTENTS
Literature Study Guide … ………………………………… 1
King Lear
Dramatis Personæ … ……………………………………… 21
Act I … …………………………………………………… 23
Act II ……………………………………………………… 72
Act III ………………………………………………………108
Act IV ………………………………………………………142
Act V … ……………………………………………………182
ACT I
SCENE I. — A Room of State in KING LEAR’S
Palace.
Enter KENT, GLOUCESTER, and EDMUND.
Kent. I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany
than Cornwall.
Glo. It did always seem so to us; but now, in the division of
the kingdom, it appears not which of the dukes he values
most; for equalities are so weighed that curiosity
in neither can make choice of either’s moiety.
Kent. Is not this your son, my lord?
Glo. His breeding, sir, hath been at my charge: I have so often
blushed to acknowledge him, that now I am brazed
to it.
Kent. I cannot conceive you.
Glo. Sir, this young fellow’s mother could; whereupon she
grew round-wombed, and had, indeed, sir, a son for
her cradle ere she had a husband for her bed. Do you
smell a fault?
Kent. I cannot wish the fault undone, the issue of it being so
proper.
Glo. But I have a son, sir, by order of law, some year elder
than this, who yet is no dearer in my account: though
this knave came somewhat saucily into the world before
he was sent for, yet was his mother fair; there was
good sport at his making, and the whoreson must be
acknowledged. Do you know this noble gentleman,
Edmund?
Edm. No, my lord.
Glo. My Lord of Kent: remember him hereafter as my honourable
friend.
Edm. My services to your lordship.
Kent. I must love you, and sue to know you better.
Edm. Sir, I shall study deserving.
Glo. He hath been out nine years, and away he shall again.
The king is coming.
Sennet. Enter LEAR, CORNWALL, ALBANY, GONERIL, REGAN,
CORDELIA, and Attendants.
Lear. Attend the Lords of France and Burgundy, Gloucester.
Glo. I shall, my liege. [Exeunt GLOUCESTER and EDMUND.
Lear. Meantime we shall express our darker purpose.
Give me the map there. Know that we have divided
In three our kingdom; and ’tis our fast intent
To shake all cares and business from our age,
Conferring them on younger strengths, while we
Unburden’d crawl toward death. Our son of Cornwall,
And you, our no less loving son of Albany,
We have this hour a constant will to publish
Our daughters’ several dowers, that future strife
May be prevented now. The princes, France and Burgundy,
Great rivals in our youngest daughter’s love,
Long in our court have made their amorous sojourn,
And here are to be answer’d. Tell me, my daughters,—
Since now we will divest us both of rule,
Interest of territory, cares of state,—
Which of you shall we say doth love us most?
That we our largest bounty may extend
Where nature doth with merit challenge. Goneril,
Our eldest-born, speak first.
Gon. Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter;
Dearer than eye-sight, space, and liberty;
Beyond what can be valu’d, rich or rare;
No less than life, with grace, health, beauty, honour;
As much as child e’er lov’d, or father found;
A love that makes breath poor and speech unable;
Beyond all manner of so much I love you.
Cor. [Aside.] What shall Cordelia do? Love, and be silent.
Lear. Of all these bounds, even from this line to this,
With shadowy forests and with champains rich’d,
With plenteous rivers and wide-skirted meads,
We make thee lady: to thine and Albany’s issue
Be this perpetual. What says our second daughter,
Our dearest Regan, wife to Cornwall? Speak.
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