John Yunge-Bateman

Illustration from 1930 edition of King Lear - Act IV, Scene 1.
Crazy Edgar, now calling himself Poor Tom: “Five fiends have been in poor Tom at once: of lust, as Obidicut; Hobbididence, prince of dumbness; Mahu, of stealing; Modo, of murder; Flibbertigibbet, of mopping and mowing, who since possesses chambermaids and waiting-women.”

Illustration from 1930 edition of King Lear - Act I, Scene 1.
Kent to Lear: “To plainness honor’s bound / When majesty falls to folly.”

Illustration from 1930 edition of King Lear - Act I, Scene 2.
Edmund says married people “doth within a dull, stale, tirèd bed / Go to th’ creating a whole tribe of fops”

Illustration from 1930 edition of King Lear - Act I, Scene 3.
Goneril to Oswald: “If you come slack of former services / You shall do well.”

Illustration from 1930 edition of King Lear - Act I, Scene 4. Lear.
“O Lear, Lear, Lear! / (strikes his head) Beat at this gate that let thy folly in / And thy dear judgment out!”

Illustration from 1930 edition of King Lear - Act II, Scene 4.
Lear to Regan and Goneril: “If only to go warm were gorgeous, / Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear’st, / Which scarcely keeps thee warm.”

Illustration from 1930 edition of King Lear - Act III, Scene 4.
Lear’s Fool tells him to keep his clothes on: “Prithee, nuncle, be contented. ‘Tis a naughty night to swim in.”

Illustration from 1930 edition of King Lear - Act IV, Scene 2.
Goneril to Edmund: “This kiss, if it durst speak, / Would stretch thy spirits up into the air.”

Illustration from 1930 edition of King Lear - Act IV, Scene 7.
Lear to Cordelia: “Thou art a soul in bliss but I am bound / Upon a wheel of fire”

Illustration from 1930 edition of King Lear - Act V, Scene 3.
Lear, carrying the dead body of his daughter Cordelia: “Howl, howl, howl, howl!”

Seduction

Title unknown, dated 1960

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