King Lear

Question 1

What happens in Act 1 scene 1

Answer 1

• Lear makes his initial errors
• Nothing - Cordelia disowns her
• Kent banished
• All authority to his daughters
• must retain his 100 soldiers
• wants to be called King

Question 2

What happens in Act 1 scene 2 ?

Answer 2

• Edmund- illegitimate son wants to adopt law of nature most cunning and strongest get what they want

Question 3

What happens in Act 1 scene 3 ?

Answer 3

-Gonereil exercises her new found power tells her servant Oswald to not listen to Lear

Question 4

What happens in Act 1 scene 4/5 ?

Answer 4

• Foul tells Lear how stupid he was being
• He lost a lot of power and his identity

Question 5

What happens Act 2 , scene 1 ?

Answer 5

• near Gloucester castle
• Edmund carrying on his plot
• Tells Edgar he is in trouble
• Cuts his hand - frames Edgar
• Regan and Cornwall think Edmund is loyal

Question 6

What happens Act 2 , scene 2 ?

Answer 6

• Lears servants Caius attacks Oswald
• Duke of Cornwall put Caius in the stocks
• Demonstrates Lear’s lack of power

Question 7

What happens Act 2 scene 3 ?

Answer 7

• ## Edgar disguised as Poor Tom

Question 8

What happens in Act 2 , scene 4

Answer 8

• Lear arrives to Regan
• Regan says he must apologise
• The sisters demand Lear has no soldiers
• He leaves him out in the storm

Question 9

What happens in Act 3 , scene 1 ?

Answer 9

• Forces of France have arrived - Cordelia

Question 10

What happens in Act 3 scene 2 ?

Answer 10

• ## Famous storm scene

Question 11

What happens in Act 3, scene 3 ?

Answer 11

• Gloucester tells Edmund French forces are in England
  -Edmund says he’s a traitor

Question 12

What happens in Act 3 scene 4 ?

Answer 12

• Lear focuses on :
• Ingratitude of his daughters
• Poor that have to be in this kind of weather with no shelter
• Takes off his clothes

Question 13

What happens in Act 3 scene 5 ?

Answer 13

• Edmund tells Cornwall , becomes Earl of Gloucester

Question 14

What happens in Act 3 scene 6 ?

Answer 14

• Mock trial

Question 15

What happens in Act 3 scene 7 ?

Answer 15

• Gloucester eyes gauged out
• Cornwall stabbed by servant and dies

Question 16

What happens in Act 4 scene 1 ?

Answer 16

• Edgar (Poor Tom) helps now blinded father

Question 17

What happens in Act 4 scene 2

Answer 17

• Tigers not daughters

Question 18

What happens in Act 4 scene 3

Answer 18

• French return to France

Question 19

What happens in Act 4 scene 4 ?

Answer 19

Lear crowned with weeds - madness

Question 20

What happens in Act 4 scene 5 ?

Answer 20

• Regan wants to marry Edmund

Question 21

What happens in Act 4 scene 6 ?

Answer 21

• Gloucester wants to commit suicide
• Lear talks about hypocrisy, adultery
• Edgar kills Gonereil servant and plans to kill Albany

Question 22

What happens in Act 4 scene 7 ?

Answer 22

• Lear suffers from guilt from banishing Cordelia
• They reconcile

Question 23

What happens in Act 5 scene 1 ?

Answer 23

• Sisters want to fight Cordelia
• Edmund reveals he wants to kill Lear and Cordelia

Question 24

What happens in Act 5 scene 2 ?

Answer 24

• Forces of Cordelia and Lear are defeated
• Cordelia and Lear sent to jail

Question 25

What happens in Act 5, scene 3 (final act )?

Answer 25

- Cordelia and Lear seem like birds in a cage - Albany reveals he knows about Gonerils plan to kill him - Goneril poisons Regan and kills herself -Edgar defeats Edmund - Lear walks in on stage holding Cordelia who has died off stage - Lear dies