The King Lear monologues below are extracts from the full modern King Lear ebook, along with a modern English translation. Reading the original King Lear words
Lear (act 3, scene 2) “The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious.” Lear (act 3, scene 2) “When the mind’s free, The Body’s delicate.” Lear (act 3, scene 4) “This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.” ...
“When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.” Lear (act 4, scene 6) “O, let me kiss that hand!” Gloucester (act 4, scene 6) “ Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.” Lear (act 4, scene 6) “Men must endure Their going hence, e...