Soliloquy Challenge

Cambridge School Shakespeare

King Lear

Soliloquy Challenge

How well do you know this soliloquy? Drag and drop the lines into the correct order then click SUBMIT at the bottom to see if you have remembered it correctly.

That ever penury, in contempt of man,

I will preserve myself: and am bethought

Escaped the hunt. No port is free; no place,

I heard myself proclaim'd;

And by the happy hollow of a tree

That guard, and most unusual vigilance,

And with presented nakedness out-face

The winds and persecutions of the sky.

Blanket my loins: elf all my hair in knots;

Brought near to beast: my face I'll grime with filth;

To take the basest and most poorest shape

Does not attend my taking. Whiles I may 'scape,

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