William Shakespeare's "King Lear" is surprisingly well ... violent clashes and tragedy of the second act with bright red drapes in the opening scene.

Give me the map there. Know that we have divided . . . our kingdom. - "King Lear", Act 1, Scene 1 Anyone who has survived a high school drama class knows that no monarch should ever try to hand ...

1. KING LEAR WAS ... including all of Act IV, Scene 3. Roughly 800 words were also changed between the two versions. Thanks to 18th-century editors, today's King Lear is often a mix of all of ...

Kent encounters the knight or gentleman to whom he entrusted messages in Act III, who discloses that the King of France has ... Kent then describes Lear’s present location and condition, in ...

In the Fourth Scene of the Third Act ... the mad King, and his blind and lesser prototype. Gloucester says: — I have no way, and therefore want no eyes, I stumbled when I saw (IV , 1).