уильям шекспир - King Lear

291 stiffstubborn

292 ingenioussensitive, intelligent

293 distractmad

295 wrong imaginationsillusions

Act 4 Scene 6

4.6 Location: the French camp, near Dover

3 every … meall my efforts will be inadequate

4 o’erpaidi.e. already more than enough

5 All … trutheverything I have told you is the simple truth (or possibly “may all reports of me be unexaggerated and accurate”)

6 Nor … clippedneither overstated nor abbreviated

7 suiteddressed

8 weedsclothes

11 Yet … intentto have my identity known now would spoil the plan I have devised

12 My … itthe favor I ask is

12 know me notdo not acknowledge me

13 meetsuitable

18 wind upput in tune (by tightening the pegs on a stringed instrument)

19 child-changèdchanged by his children

23 I’th’sway … willas you see fit, under your own authority

23 arrayeddressed (appropriately)

27 doubt offear for

27 temperanceself-control

31 reverencei.e. position deserving respect, venerable state

33 Had youeven if you had

33 flakeslocks of hair

34 Did challengewould have demanded

34 offrom

38 fainobliged

39 rogues forlorndestitute vagabonds

40 shorti.e. broken up (and hence less comfortable)

41 at onceat the same time

42 concluded allcome entirely to an end

46 blissi.e. heaven

47 wheel of firei.e. one of hell’s tortures of the damned; recalls Ixion, who, in Greek mythology, was bound to a wheel of fire for attempting to seduce the queen of the gods

47 thatso that

51 widewide of the mark, confused

54 abusedwronged, ill-treated/deluded

57 Would … condition!I wish I could be sure of what state I am in!

63 fondsilly

84 ragefrenzy

86 further settlinghis mind is more settled

Act 5 Scene 1

5.1 Location: the British camp, near Dover

5.1 Drum and Colours soldiers with military flags and a drum beating

1 Know offind out from

1 last purposemost recent intention

2 sincesubsequently

2 advisedpersuaded/warned

2 aughtanything, i.e. any news

4 self-reprovingself-reproach

4 constant pleasurefixed wishes

5 miscarriedcome to harm

6 doubtedfeared

11 honouredhonorable

13 forfended placeforbidden place, i.e. Goneril’s vagina

15 I … herI cannot stand her

16 familiartoo friendly/sexually intimate

20 rigour … stateharshness of our government

21 cry outi.e. protest in pain

22 Why … reasoned?Why are we discussing this?

23 Combine togetheri.e. let us combine our two armies

24 domestic … broilsprivate internal squabbles

27 th’ancient of warexperienced senior officers

30 convenientsuitable, seemly

31 know the riddleunderstand your enigmatic request, see your trick (Regan wants to keep a suspicious eye on Goneril)

34 I’ll overtake youpresumably Albany calls after those who have or are in the process of departing

35 opeopen

35 letteri.e. the letter Oswald was carrying from Goneril to Edmund

36 soundi.e. sound a summons

38 championone who fights in single combat

39 avouchèddeclared, affirmed

39 miscarrylose the battle and die

41 machinationplotting

44 crymake the proclamation

46 o’erlookread over

47 powerstroops

49 discoveryintelligence-gathering, reconnaissance

51 greet the timebe ready when the time comes

53 jealoussuspicious, mistrustful

58 hardlywith difficulty

58 carry … sidefulfill my side of the agreement (with Goneril)/achieve my own (power-seeking) ends

60 countenanceauthority

62 taking offmurder

65 shalli.e. they shall

65 my … debatemy position relies on action not discussion

Act 5 Scene 2

5.2 Location: not far from the battlefield, near Dover

5.2 Alarum trumpet call to arms

1 fatherform of address for an old man

2 hosti.e. shelter

5.2 retreat trumpet call signaling retreat

7 ta’en(are) captured

12 Ripenessreadiness/the right time

Act 5 Scene 3

5.3 Location: the British camp, near Dover

1 good guardguard them carefully

2 greater pleasuresthe wishes of more important people (i.e. Goneril, Regan, Albany)

3 censurejudge, sentence

5 meaningintentions

6 cast downhumbled by fortune/defeated in battle/dejected

14 gilded butterfliesactual butterflies/lavishly dressed courtiers

14 poor rogueswretched fellows

17 take … thingsunderstand the secret inner workings of the world

18 God’s spiesspying on the world on God’s behalf/looking at the world from a lofty vantage point, like God

18 wear outoutlive

19 packs and sectscliques and factions

20 That … th’mooni.e. whose fortunes ebb and flow like the tides

22 sacrificesrefers to either Cordelia’s sacrifice for Lear or their joint loss of freedom

23 throw incensei.e. like priests performing the sacrifice

24 brand … foxesalludes to the practice of smoking foxes out of their holes

26 flesh and fellflesh and skin (i.e. entirely)

27 starveddead

33 tender-mindedsensitive, soft-hearted

34 becomebefit, suit

35 bear questionpermit discussion

38 write happycount yourself fortunate

39 carrymanage

41 strainlineage

43 oppositesopponents

44 usetreat

48 retentiondetention, confinement

49 Whoserefers to the king

49 charmsbewitching spells

49 titlename of king/legal entitlement (to land and power)

50 pluck … bosomdraw the sympathies of the common people

51 turn … themi.e. turn our conscripted soldiers’ weapons against ourselves