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Act 1 Scene 1
The Earl of Gloucester has two sons. Edgar is older and legitimate and Edmund is a year younger and is illegitimate.
King Lear gives up his political power and lands, with his sons-in-law ruling as regents, but he keeps the title of ‘king’.
Lear gives his older daughters Goneril and Regan half his kingdom each to rule with their husbands and surprises everyone by disinheriting and disowning his youngest daughter Cordelia.
The Earl of Kent is banished from the kingdom for publicly questioning Lear.
Act 1 Scene 2
Edmund believes he should have the same rights and inheritance as his legitimate and older half-brother Edgar.
Gloucester believes Edmund’s story that his older son Edgar is plotting against him.
Edgar believes that his father is angry with him and that his brother Edmund is trying to help him.
Act 1 scene 3
As he announced he would, Lear and his hundred knights are staying with Goneril before moving on to stay with Regan.
Goneril is unhappy with her father’s behaviour and instructs her servants not to obey Lear’s orders.
Act 1 Scene 4
Kent has defied his banishment to return in disguise and serve King Lear.
Goneril has insulted her father, telling him that she will not put up with his riotous knights in her household.
Lear has cursed his oldest daughter and set off with his followers to stay with Regan.
Act 1 Scene 5
Kent has been sent to tell Regan that Lear is on his way.
Lear is beginning to question his actions and his sanity.
Act 2 Scene 1
Edmund has convinced his father, his brother and the Duke of Cornwall that he is trustworthy.
Regan and Cornwall have left their own home to stay at Gloucester’s house after receiving the news from Goneril and from Lear about their fall out.
