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King Lear

By William Shakespeare

  • editors: Craig A. Berry, Martin Mueller, and Clifford Wulfman
  • technical editors: Jeffrey Cousens and Bill Parod
  • editorial assistants: Lawrence Berland, Hilary Bina, Katherine Gould, Kreg Segal, Nicholas Terrell

The WordHoard Shakespeare is a joint project of the Perseus Project at Tufts University, The Northwestern University Library, and Northwestern University Academic Technologies. It is derived from The Globe Shakespeare , the one-volume version of the Cambridge Shakespeare , edited by W. G. Clark, J. Glover, and W. A. Wright (1891-3). The Internet Shakespeare editions of the quartos and folios have been consulted to create a modern text that observes as closely as possible the morphological and prosodic practices of the earliest editions. Spellings, especially of contracted and hyphenated forms, have been standardized across the corpus. The text has been fully lemmatized and morphosyntactically tagged.

© 2003. The copyright to The WordHoard Shakespeare is owned jointly by Northwestern University and Tufts University. The WordHoard Shakespeare is provided for free solely for non-commercial use by students, scholars, and the public. Any commercial use or publication of it, in whole or in part, without prior written authorization of the copyright holders is strictly prohibited.

The Wordhoard Shakespeare is derived from, but not identical with, The Globe Shakespeare , the one-volume version of the Cambridge Shakespeare (1891-3) edited by W. G. Clark, J. Glover, and W. A. Wright.

  • Act 1

    • Act 1, Scene 1

      King Lear's palace.

      Speakers: Albany, Burgundy, Cordelia, Edmund, France, Gloucester, Goneril, Kent, Lear, Regan

    • Act 1, Scene 2

      The Earl of Gloucester's castle.

      Speakers: Edgar, Edmund, Gloucester

    • Act 1, Scene 3

      The Duke of Albany's palace.

      Speakers: Goneril, Oswald

    • Act 1, Scene 4

      A hall in the same.

      Speakers: Albany, Fool, Goneril, Kent, Knight, Lear, Oswald

    • Act 1, Scene 5

      Court before the same.

      Speakers: Fool, Gentleman, Kent, Lear

  • Act 2

    • Act 2, Scene 1

      The Earl of Gloucester's Castle.

      Speakers: Cornwall, Curan, Edgar, Edmund, Gloucester, Regan

    • Act 2, Scene 2

      Before Gloucester's castle.

      Speakers: Cornwall, Edmund, Gloucester, Kent, Oswald, Regan

    • Act 2, Scene 3

      A wood.

      Speakers: Edgar

    • Act 2, Scene 4

      Before Gloucester's castle. Kent in the stocks.

      Speakers: Cornwall, Fool, Gentleman, Gloucester, Goneril, Kent, Lear, Regan

  • Act 3

    • Act 3, Scene 1

      A heath.

      Speakers: Gentleman, Kent

    • Act 3, Scene 2

      Another part of the heath. Storm still.

      Speakers: Fool, Kent, Lear

    • Act 3, Scene 3

      Gloucester's castle.

      Speakers: Edmund, Gloucester

    • Act 3, Scene 4

      The heath. Before a hovel.

      Speakers: Edgar, Fool, Gloucester, Kent, Lear

    • Act 3, Scene 5

      Gloucester's castle.

      Speakers: Cornwall, Edmund

    • Act 3, Scene 6

      A chamber in a farmhouse adjoining the castle.

      Speakers: Edgar, Fool, Gloucester, Kent, Lear

    • Act 3, Scene 7

      Gloucester's castle.

      Speakers: Cornwall, First Servant, Gloucester, Goneril, Oswald, Regan, Second Servant, Third Servant

  • Act 4

    • Act 4, Scene 1

      The heath.

      Speakers: Edgar, Gloucester, Old Man

    • Act 4, Scene 2

      Before the Duke of Albany's palace.

      Speakers: Albany, Edmund, Goneril, Messenger, Oswald

    • Act 4, Scene 3

      The French camp near Dover.

      Speakers: Gentleman, Kent

    • Act 4, Scene 4

      The same. A tent.

      Speakers: Cordelia, Doctor, Messenger

    • Act 4, Scene 5

      Gloucester's castle.

      Speakers: Oswald, Regan

    • Act 4, Scene 6

      Fields near Dover.

      Speakers: Edgar, Gentleman, Gloucester, Lear, Oswald

    • Act 4, Scene 7

      A tent in the French camp. LEAR on a bed asleep, soft music playing; Gentleman, and others attending.

      Speakers: Cordelia, Doctor, Gentleman, Kent, Lear

  • Act 5

    • Act 5, Scene 1

      The British camp, near Dover.

      Speakers: Albany, Edgar, Edmund, Goneril, Regan

    • Act 5, Scene 2

      A field between the two camps.

      Speakers: Edgar, Gloucester

    • Act 5, Scene 3

      The British camp near Dover.

      Speakers: Albany, Captain, Cordelia, Edgar, Edmund, Gentleman, Goneril, Herald, Kent, Lear, Regan