Each student chose four quotations from acts four and five in class on Monday, April 4.
Complete the following and bring it to class on Wednesday, April 6.
(I've sharpened the directions a bit.)
For each of the four quotations...
1. Identify speaker, act, scene, lines (e.g. if you chose the first line of the play: Kent, 1.1.1) You might use this website to help you find the lines.
2. Describe the context: who is present? what is the situation? What might any of this have to do with the quotation?
3. What's happening with language and meaning in the quotation? Consider images (both literal and figurative) and themes. Also, consider other features of language, like diction and syntax, in relation to meaning. Consider the possibility of irony. Discuss the significance of all of this in relation to the quotation's meaning.
4. Make connections between the quotation and your other quotations. (And/or make other connections.) Connections might have to do with speaker, events, imagery, themes.
*5*. I've added this: why do you think someone has decided that the quotation is significant and/or memorable enough to be included in a list of quotations from King Lear?
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