Act I
King Lear's favorite daughter
Who is Cordelia?
Gloucester's servant
Who is Curan?
Kent tells the knight to give Cordelia a ____. She will know who sent the knight when she sees it.
What is a ring?
Gloucester attempts to commit suicide here.
What is cliffs of Dover?
These characters join together to repel the French invasion.
Who are Albany, Goneril, Regan and Edmund?
Lear did this as a result of Cordelia's honesty when he asked her to express how much she loved him
Why did Lear disown Cordelia?
Edmund does this to make Gloucester think that Edgar tried to kill him for refusing to join Edgar’s supposed plan against Gloucester’s life
Why did Edmund cut his arm with a sword?
Kent finds Lear and the Fool, and urges them to take shelter here.
What is a hovel?
After Edmund leaves Goneril’s Castle, this character has a dispute with Goneril because of the way she has treated her father, Lear.
Who is Goneril's husband, Duke of Albany?
This character says, “To both these sisters have I sworn my love, each jealous of the other as the stung...which of them shall I take?"
Who is Edmund?
____tells Lear he is insane to reward the flattery of his older daughters and disown Cordelia, who loves him more than her sisters do. Lear gets angry and banishes____from the Kingdom.
Who is Kent?
Where Kent was punished for attacking Oswald, and not giving Cornwall and Regan an explanation as to why he was at their castle
What are stocks?
Goes out to look for Lear, against Goneril and Regan's commands, to convince him to go back to the castle.
Who is Gloucester?
This character worries deeply about Lear when she hears and reads the letters that have been sent to her.
Who is Cordelia?
Lost the battle in Act V Scene 3.
Who is Lear's side?
The place where Lear went as a result of Goneril and her servants treating him in a disrespectful manner.
What is Regan's Castle?
A new character Edgar turns into by stripping off his clothes and covering himself in filth to become unrecognizable to those who are chasing after him
Who is Poor Tom?
Gloucester tells Kent to take Lear here to find protection.
What is Dover?
Edgar pretends to take Gloucester to the cliff. He waits quietly nearby as Gloucester prays to the gods to forgive him. Gloucester attempts to commit suicide. He falls to the ground. Edgar wakes Gloucester up and pretends to be an ordinary gentleman.
What did Edgar do to prevent Gloucester from committing suicide?
Committed suicide after poisoning her sister.
Who is Goneril?
Through songs, he sings to Lear about the huge mistake he has made in handing over his power to Goneril and Regan.
Who is the Fool?
He did this as a result of Goneril and Regan only allowing him to stay in their castles with only 25 out of 100 knights.
Why did Lear head out into the storm?
Gouged out both of Gloucester’s eyes for helping Lear escape.
How did Cornwall punish Gloucester?
This character states, “ If you have poison for me, I will drink it. If you do not love me, for your sisters. Have, as I do remember, done me wrong. You have some cause, they have not.”
Who is Lear?
Meaning of “Friends of my soul, you twain. Rule in this realm, and the gored state sustain.”
What is Albany wanted Kent and Edgar to rule with him?