Tragedy · c. 1606
The Tragedy of King Lear
King Lear, old and weary of rule, divides his kingdom among his daughters according to their professions of love, banishing the plain-spoken Cordelia and Kent. Goneril and Regan soon strip him of his retinue and turn him out into the storm, where he goes mad upon the heath beside his Fool and the disguised Edgar. Meanwhile Gloucester, deceived by his bastard son Edmund, is blinded for helping the king. Cordelia returns with a French army, but Lear and she are defeated, and the play ends in the deaths of Cordelia, Lear and almost all the rest.
Contents · 27 parts
- Persons of the Play23 lines
- Act I, Scene 1about 330 lines
- Act I, Scene 2about 170 lines
- Act I, Scene 331 lines
- Act I, Scene 4about 360 lines
- Act I, Scene 548 lines
- Act II, Scene 1about 150 lines
- Act II, Scene 2about 180 lines
- Act II, Scene 324 lines
- Act II, Scene 4about 350 lines
- Act III, Scene 161 lines
- Act III, Scene 2about 100 lines
- Act III, Scene 325 lines
- Act III, Scene 4about 190 lines
- Act III, Scene 523 lines
- Act III, Scene 6about 120 lines
- Act III, Scene 7about 130 lines
- Act IV, Scene 195 lines
- Act IV, Scene 2about 120 lines
- Act IV, Scene 363 lines
- Act IV, Scene 437 lines
- Act IV, Scene 548 lines
- Act IV, Scene 6about 310 lines
- Act IV, Scene 7about 120 lines
- Act V, Scene 188 lines
- Act V, Scene 219 lines
- Act V, Scene 3about 410 lines