![John Yunge Bateman - Illustration from King Lear - Act IV, Scene 1, 1930](https://c7.staticflickr.com/9/8083/28640134094_a482b85aec_b.jpg)
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.”
![John Yunge Bateman - Illustration from King Lear - Act I, Scene 1, 1930](https://c3.staticflickr.com/9/8554/29155133362_86d5a4af66_b.jpg)
Kent to Lear: “To plainness honor’s bound / When majesty falls to folly.”
![John Yunge Bateman - Illustration from King Lear - Act I, Scene 2, 1930](https://c3.staticflickr.com/9/8559/29155132802_45d4700f11_b.jpg)
Edmund says married people “doth within a dull, stale, tirèd bed / Go to th’ creating a whole tribe of fops”
![John Yunge Bateman - Illustration from King Lear - Act I, Scene 3, 1930](https://c5.staticflickr.com/9/8082/29155132252_e7aa404110_b.jpg)
Goneril to Oswald: “If you come slack of former services / You shall do well.”
![John Yunge Bateman - Illustration from King Lear - Act I, Scene 4, 1930](https://c7.staticflickr.com/9/8520/29229017166_da0a2d70c0_b.jpg)
“O Lear, Lear, Lear! / (strikes his head) Beat at this gate that let thy folly in / And thy dear judgment out!”
![John Yunge Bateman - Illustration from King Lear - Act II, Scene 4, 1930](https://c3.staticflickr.com/9/8215/28640135514_02cd0feab5_b.jpg)
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.”
![John Yunge Bateman - Illustration from King Lear - Act III, Scene 4, 1930](https://c5.staticflickr.com/9/8134/29229015636_f6eeec8988_b.jpg)
Lear’s Fool tells him to keep his clothes on: “Prithee, nuncle, be contented. ‘Tis a naughty night to swim in.”
![John Yunge Bateman - Illustration from King Lear - Act IV, Scene 2, 1930](https://c3.staticflickr.com/9/8531/28640133314_ccef127769_b.jpg)
Goneril to Edmund: “This kiss, if it durst speak, / Would stretch thy spirits up into the air.”
![John Yunge Bateman - Illustration from King Lear - Act IV, Scene 7, 1930](https://c3.staticflickr.com/9/8617/28640132514_563c72f77b_b.jpg)
Lear to Cordelia: “Thou art a soul in bliss but I am bound / Upon a wheel of fire”
![John Yunge Bateman - Illustration from King Lear - Act V, Scene 3, 1930](https://c7.staticflickr.com/9/8277/29229012966_efaef07853_b.jpg)
Lear, carrying the dead body of his daughter Cordelia: “Howl, howl, howl, howl!”
![John Yunge Bateman - Seduction](https://c5.staticflickr.com/9/8734/28640130884_cd15b7edc2_h.jpg)
![John Yunge Bateman - Three young women in cavern surrounded by small grotesque creatures, 1960](https://c4.staticflickr.com/9/8445/28642726043_3518a75d5c_o.jpg)
King Lear scans found at Book Graphics. Additional artworks found at Biksady.com and Live Auctioneers.
1 comment:
I made a post about his work. Completely erotic and a little mad. Great images.
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