King Lear Map

King Lear Map

I.i. Lear wants daughters to profess their love, Cordelia marries France; sisters plot.
Kent: “Let it fall rather, though the fork invade The region of my heart.” (144-145)
I.ii. Gloucester is gullible and believed Edmund; Edgar sees trouble; Edmund continues plotting.
Edmund: “An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star.” (126-128)
I.iii. Goneril pissing Lear off with help of servants for hope of confrontation.
Goneril: “By day and night he wrongs me, every hour He flashes into one gross crime or other That sets us all at odds.” (3-5)
I.iv. Kent serves Lear; Goneril wants Lear out; Oswald wants Goneril to calm down.
Fool: “A fox, when one has caught her, And such a daughter, Should sure to the slaughter, If my cap would buy a halter, So the Fool follows after.” (317-321)
I.v. Kent, Lear, Fool go to next house; tell jokes and wisdom.
Fool: “She’s that a maid now, and laughs at my departure, Shall not be a maid long, unless things be cut shorter.” (51-52)
II.i. Gloucester finds Edmund and Edgar fighting; Regan warning others.
Regan: “Our good old friend, Lay comforts to your bosom, and bestow Your needful council to our businesses, which came the instant use.” (125-128)
II.ii. Oswald, Kent fight; Cornwalll puts Kent in stocks.
Kent: “None of these rogues and cowards But Ajax is their fool.” (124)
II.iii. Edgar helps us learn that he’s disguised as a beggar.
Edgar: “No port is free, no place That guard an most unusual vigilance Does not attend my taking.” (3-5)
II.iv. Lear, Fool, Kent go to Regan; Regan, Goneril refuse nights; Lear leaves during storm.
Regan: “Oh sir, to willful men, The injuries that they themselves procure Must be their schoolmasters.” (302-304)
III.i. Kent sends gentleman to Cordelia, France for help; find King.
Gentleman: “Bids the winds blow the earth into the sea.” (5)
III.ii. Lear in storm; Fool wanting Lear safe; Kent, Lear at hut; Fool’s prophesy.
Fool: “This prophesy Merlin shall make, For I live before his time.” (92-93)
III.iii. Gloucester tells Edmund plans; Edmund betrays Gloucester.
Gloucester: “When I desir’d their leave that I might pity him, they took from me the use of my own house,. . .to sustain him.” (2-6)
III.iv. Kent, Lear at hut; storm takes Lear’s mind from daughters; Edgar hidden with “devil.”
Edgar: “False of heart, light of ear, bloody of hand; hog in sloth, fox in stealth, wolf in greediness, dog in madness, lion in prey.” (92-94)
III.v. Cornwall, Edmund, speak about loyalty and Gloucester; Edmund sets off for Gloucester.
Cornwall: “I now perceive, it was not altogether your brother’s evil disposition made him seek his death; but a provoking merit, set a-work by a reprovable badness in himself.” (5-8)
III.vi. Gloucester, Kent, Edgar with Lear; Lear going crazy; Edgar must reveal himself soon.
Edgar: “Hoppendance cries in Tom’s belly for two white herring. Croak not, black angel, I am no food for thee.” (30-32)
III.vii. Regan, Cornwall gouge Gloucester’s eyes out.
Regan: “Go thrust him out at gates, and let him smell his way to Dover.” (93-94)
IV.i. Gloucester meets up with Edgar, but doesn’t know; Gloucester wants to kill himself.
Edgar: “But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee, Life would not yield to age.” (11-12)
IV.ii. Goneril, Albany fight; despise each other; Goneril wants Edmund; Albany revenge for Gloucester.
Albany: “Proper deformity shows not in the fiend So horrid as in woman.” (60-61)
IV.iii. Kent, Gentleman talk; Cordelia gets letter; Gentleman brought to Lear.
Gentleman: “Ay, sir, she took them, read them in my presence, And now and then an ample tear trill’d down Her delicate cheek.” (11-12)
IV.iv. Cordelia asks doctor to help Lear; British coming; France ready.
Cordelia: “What can man’s wisdom In restoring his bereaved sense?” (8-9)
IV.v. Regan, Oswald talk; smarter for Edmund marry Regan; soldiers out tomorrow.
Regan: “Faith, he is posted hence on serious matter.” (8)
IV.vi. Gloucester, Edgar meet with Lear; Oswald has Goneril’s letter; battles Stewart.
Lear: “Behold yond simp’ring dame, Whose face between her forks presages snow; That minces virtue, and does shake the head To hear of pleasure’s name.” (118-121)
IV.vii. Lear awakens to Cordelia; Kent hears Cornwall dead; Kent’s life belongs to battle.
Cordelia: “Mine enemy’s dog, Though he had bit me, should have stood that night Against my fire.” (35-37)
V.i. Edmund, Regan speak who he’ll choose; Edgar delivers letter to Albany.
Edgar: “If you miscarry, Your business of the world hath so an end, An machination ceases.” (44-46)
V.ii. Edgar leads Gloucester; battle close; Gloucester wants to die.
Edgar: “Men must endure Their going hence even as their coming hither, Ripeness to all.” (9-11)
V.iii. Goneril, Regan die; Lear, Cordelia jailed; Edgar meets Edmund; Cordelia hung; Lear dies.
Edgar: “The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.” (324-325)