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Act 1 Scene 1

1.1Location: the royal court, Britain

1affected favored

5qualities … moiety their qualities are so evenly balanced that the most careful scrutiny cannot distinguish between either man’s share

8breeding upbringing (plays on the sense of “conception”) charge cost (plays on the sense of “accusation, blame”)

9brazed made brazen, hardened

10conceive understand (Gloucester then plays on sense of “become pregnant”)

13ere before

14fault transgression/loss of scent during a hunt/vagina

15undone plays on the sense of “not copulated with” issue outcome/child

16proper handsome/worthy/rightful

17by … law legitimate

17some year about a year

18dearer more beloved (plays on the sense of “more expensive”)

18account estimation (plays on the financial sense)

21whoreson i.e. bastard (here used affectionately)

27sue entreat, seek

28deserving to be worthy of (your esteem)

29out away (perhaps abroad or in the house of another nobleman; it was common for a nobleman’s son to be educated in the house of another important family)

1.1Sennet trumpet call signaling a procession

1.1bearing a coronet carrying a small crown denoting inferior rank/wearing a wreath or garland about the head (must be of material that can be broken in half)

31Attend wait on, look after

34darker secret (with sinister connotations)

36fast intent firm intention

37business official duties/exertion/anxiety

39son i.e. son-in-law (like Albany)

41constant will unshakable intention

41publish proclaim, make public

42several dowers individual dowries

42that so that

45sojourn stay

48Interest possession

50bounty generosity/gift

51nature … challenge natural affection, combined with merit, makes a claim

53wield express

56grace virtue

58makes breath poor makes words insufficient/renders one breathless (in the attempt to express it)

58unable inadequate

59all … much i.e. all possible expressions of the amount of love

61bounds territories

62shadowy shady

62champaigns riched rich open countryside

63wide-skirted meads extensive meadows

67self-mettle same temperament/same substance (“metal”)

68prize … worth value myself in equal terms

69deed action, performance/bond, legal document

70that in that

72square of sense guiding principle governing the senses/(physical or mental) region of the senses

73alone felicitate only happy

77ponderous weighty

78hereditary by inheritance

80validity value

83vines … Burgundy Lear characterizes France and Burgundy by their assets: vineyards and cattle pastures

84interessed admitted, given a share

84draw attract/receive, collect/pull forth (as one “draws lots”)

92bond duty (with connotations both of a binding legal agreement and of restrictive shackles)

93Mend improve

94mar spoil

96begot conceived, fathered

96bred raised, brought up

101plight pledge, promise

106untender hard/cruel (plays on the sense of “not young”)

110Hecate Greek goddess of witchcraft and the moon

111operation movement and astrological influence

111orbs planets

114Propinquity … blood close ties of kinship

116this this time (or Lear gestures toward himself)

116Scythian person from Scythia, an ancient region extending over much of eastern Europe and Asiatic Russia, notorious for its barbarous inhabitants

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