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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Chapter 507: SCENE: Britain

By William Shakespeare

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This collection gathers dramatic works and lyrical poems spanning comedies, tragedies, histories, and a sonnet sequence, presenting plays in verse and prose alongside narrative poems. The pieces examine human experience through recurring themes of love, ambition, jealousy, power, fate, and the tension between appearance and reality, moving between comic confusion and tragic collapse. Language and theatrical craft are central, employing vivid imagery, rhetorical invention, puns, and varied poetic forms to probe identity, political conflict, and moral choice across intimate moments and public spectacle.

THE TRAGEDY OF KING LEAR

Contents

Scene I. A Room of State in King Lear’s Palace

Scene II. A Hall in the Earl of Gloucester’s Castle

Scene III. A Room in the Duke of Albany’s Palace

Scene IV. A Hall in Albany’s Palace

Scene V. Court before the Duke of Albany’s Palace

Scene I. A court within the Castle of the Earl of Gloucester

Scene II. Before Gloucester’s Castle

Scene III. The open Country

Scene IV. Before Gloucester’s Castle

Scene I. A Heath

Scene II. Another part of the heath

Scene III. A Room in Gloucester’s Castle

Scene IV. A part of the Heath with a Hovel

Scene V. A Room in Gloucester’s Castle

Scene VI. A Chamber in a Farmhouse adjoining the Castle

Scene VII. A Room in Gloucester’s Castle

Scene I. The heath

Scene II. Before the Duke of Albany’s Palace

Scene III. The French camp near Dover

Scene IV. The French camp. A Tent

Scene V. A Room in Gloucester’s Castle

Scene VI. The country near Dover

Scene VII. A Tent in the French Camp

Scene I. The Camp of the British Forces near Dover

Scene II. A field between the two Camps

Scene III. The British Camp near Dover

Dramatis Personæ

LEAR, King of Britain.
GONERIL, eldest daughter to Lear.
REGAN, second daughter to Lear.
CORDELIA, youngest daughter to Lear.
DUKE of ALBANY, married to Goneril.
DUKE of CORNWALL, married to Regan.
KING of FRANCE.
DUKE of BURGUNDY.
EARL of GLOUCESTER.
EDGAR, elder son to Gloucester.
EDMUND, younger bastard son to Gloucester.
EARL of KENT.
FOOL.
OSWALD, steward to Goneril.
CURAN, a Courtier.
OLD MAN, Tenant to Gloucester.
Physician.
An Officer employed by Edmund.
Gentleman, attendant on Cordelia.
A Herald.
Servants to Cornwall.

Knights attending on the King, Officers, Messengers, Soldiers and Attendants.

SCENE: Britain