Scenes
(26 total)

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Act I

• Scene 1. King Lear’s Palace.
• Scene 2. The Earl of Gloucester’s Castle.
• Scene 3. The Duke of Albany’s Palace.
• Scene 4. The Duke of Albany’s Palace.
• Scene 5. Court before the Duke of Albany’s Palace. Enter Lear, Kent, and Fool.

Act II

• Scene 1. A court within the Castle of the Earl of Gloucester.
• Scene 2. Before Gloucester’s Castle.
• Scene 3. The open country.
• Scene 4. Before Gloucester’s Castle; Kent in the stocks.

Act III

• Scene 1. A heath. Storm still.
• Scene 2. Another part of the heath. Storm still.
• Scene 3. Gloucester’s Castle.
• Scene 4. The heath. Before a hovel. Storm still.
• Scene 5. Gloucester’s Castle.
• Scene 6. A farmhouse near Gloucester’s Castle.
• Scene 7. Gloucester’s Castle.

Act IV

• Scene 1. The heath.
• Scene 2. Before the Duke of Albany’s Palace.
• Scene 3. The French camp near Dover.
• Scene 4. The French camp.
• Scene 5. Gloucester’s Castle.
• Scene 6. The country near Dover.
• Scene 7. A tent in the French camp.

Act V

• Scene 1. The British camp near Dover.
• Scene 2. A field between the two camps. Alarum within.
• Scene 3. The British camp, near Dover.

Characters
(25 total)

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• Captain
• Cordelia, daughter to Lear
• Curan, a courtier
• Doctor
• Duke of Albany
• Duke of Burgundy
• Duke of Cornwall
• Earl of Gloucester
• Earl of Kent
• Edgar, son of Glouchester
• Edmund, bastard son to Glouchester
• Fool
• Gentleman
• Goneril, daughter to Lear
• Herald
• King of France
• Knight
• Lear, King of Britain
• Messenger
• Old Man, tenant to Glouchester
• Oswald, steward to Goneril
• Regan, daughter to Lear
• Servant 1
• Servant 2
• Servant 3