King Lear

King Lear

1. Characters

   • Lear
   • Cordelia
     • Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth. I love your majesty According to my bond; no more nor less
   • Regan
   • Goneril
   • Edgar
   • Edmund
   • Fool
   • Kent
   • Gloucester
   • Albany
   • Cornwall

2. Themes

   • Natural and unatural
     • Gods
     • Weather
     • Fate
     • Nature
   • Religion
     • Gods/fate
     • Catholoicism
     • Nature
   • Sight
     • Lear
     • Gloucester
     • Goneril + Regan
     • Albany

3. Events

   • Banishment of Cordelia + Kent
   • Gloucester's eyes being ripped out
   • Lear cast into the Forest
   • Edmund's plot against Edgar
   • Edgar disguising himself as Mad Tom
   • Kent disguising himself as servant