Plot Summary

Question 1

Act 1 key events

Answer 1

The love test (Scene 1)
Edmund’s soliloquy (Scene 2)
Goneril and Oswald plot (Scene 3)
Kent disguised, Lear mistreatment (Scene 4)
Lear is FOOLish (Scene 5)

Question 2

Act 2 key events

Answer 2

Edmund fake fight (Scene 1)
Kent in the stocks, Lear cursing, Poor Tom disguise, servants = 0, Lear goes out into the storm (Scene 2)

Question 3

Act 3 key events

Answer 3

Kent sends ring to Cordelia (Scene 1)
Lear and Fool in the storm, blindness (Scene 2)
Gloucester tells Edmund his loyalty to Lear (Scene 3)
Poor Tom, Gloucester takes storm gang to his castle (Scene 4)
Edmund snitches to Cornwall (Scene 5)
Mock trial, Kent wants Lear to reconcile with Cordelia (Scene 6)
Gloucester’s blinding (Scene 7)

Question 3

Act 4 key events

Answer 3

Poor Tom leads Gloucester to Dover (Scene 1)
Goneril and Edmund kiss, Cornwall dead, Goneril worries about Regan and Edmund (Scene 2)
Kent tells his gentlemen Cordelia is near, thinks Lear is ashamed (Scene 3)
Cordelia POV, demands help for Lear and army prep (Scene 4)
Oswald holding letters to Edmund from Goneril and Regan (Scene 5)
Gloucester cliff, recognizes Lear’s voice, Oswald tries to kill Gloucester, Edgar kills him, reads Goneril’s letter to Edmund (Scene 6)
Lear and Cordelia reconcile, end of madness (Scene 7)

Question 3

Act 5 key events

Answer 3

Edmund controls Regan’s troupes, Goneril joins forces, disguised Edgar gives Albany champion letter, Edmund reveals scheme (Scene 1)
Lear and Cordelia lose battle (Scene 2)
Edmund arrests Lear and Cordelia, Regan poisoned, Albany reveals everything, blows trumpet, Edgar as knight kills Edmund, Edmund repents, Goneril dies, Edmund dies.
Cordelia and Lear die, Edgar and Albany left to rule (Scene 3)