King Lear: Difference between revisions

* [[Eye Scream]]: {{spoiler|Gloucester}}.

* [[Get Thee to a Nunnery]]: 'Pillicock sat on Pillicock hill,' ''I cannot conceive you' (though it is a bit more like verbal irony in I.1.11)

'''Lear:''' Sir, this young fellow's mother could }}

** It's practically a 'your mum' joke.

* [[Hope Spot]]: Lear eventually reunites with Cordelia and obtains her forgiveness. Yay! Wait, what just happened?

* [[Hurricane of Euphemisms|Hurricane Of Insults]]: Hoo ''boy'', Kent's got a mean tongue.

'''Earl of Kent:''' A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-liver'd, action-taking, whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch; one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deny the least syllable of thy addition. }}

** And so also gets into [[Flowery Insults]] with stuff like "Thou whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter""