Act 3 Summary Flashcards
Act 3, Scene 1
-Kent is looking for the King and a gentleman tells him Lear is ‘Contending with fretful elements’ accompanied by ‘None but the Fool’
-Kent tells gentleman that Albany + Cornwall are bad are spies are in their courts reporting to C’s hubby France
-Kent sends gentleman with a ring to find Cordelia
Act 2, Scene 2
-Lear: ‘Blow winds and crack your cheeks!’
-the Fool tries to calm him down but Lear continues to complain to the elements they are taking his daughters side ‘against a head So old and white as this’
-Kent persuades lear into shelter of ‘a hovel’ after finding them
-‘Poor Fool and knave, I have one part in my hear That’s sorry yet for thee’
Act 3, Scene 3
-Gloucester confined in Edmund about how G+R+Cornwall have forbidden him to help Lear
-tells Edmund of a letter locked in his closet that is ‘dangerous to be spoken’
-As soon as Gloucester leaves, Edmund tells the audience that he will immediately report it to Cornwall
Act 3, Scene 4
-Kent has led Lear to hovel
-Lear moment is insight: ‘Poor naked wretches’ in his Kingdom who have no shelter and confess ‘I have ta’en Too little care of this’
-Edgar comes out of hovel as Poor Tom speaking and behaving like a ‘Bedlam beggar’
-Lear is intrigued and considers how ‘unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor bare, forked animal’
-Lear takes of clothes
-Gloucester finds them as says he will take them to where ‘both fire and food is ready’
-Lear agrees to go but won’t follow without his ‘Noble philosopher’ ‘Poor Tom’
Act 3, Scene 5
-Edmund tells Cornwall info from Gloucester
-Cornwall sees the letter which ‘approves him an intelligent party to the advantage of France’ and therefore a traitor to his own country
-Cornwall praises Edmund telling him ‘it hath made thee Earl of Gloucester’
Act 3, Scene 6
-Gloucester brings Lear, Kent, ‘Poor Tom’ and Fool to shelter near his house
-Lear complains yet again about treatment of daughters
-MOCK TRIAL of R+G
-Kent persuades Lear to rest
-Gloucester pulls back up and tells the boys they need to leave immediately and ‘drive toward Dover, friend, where thou shalt meet Both welcome and protection’
-Fool’s last lines
Act 3, Scene 7
-R+G are angry about Gloucester betrayal (R: ‘Hang him instantly’ + G: ‘Pluck out his eyes’)
-Oswald turns up with the news that Lear and ‘Some five or six-and-thirty of his knights’ have gone toward dover’
-G goes home with Edmund
-Cornwall send servants to bring in ‘the traitor Gloucester’
-Gloucester is brought in and protests + tied to chair and interrogated
-Gloucester tells R he has sent Lear to Dover ‘because I would not see thy cruel nails Pluck out his poor old eyes’
-Cornwall gouges out one of Gloucester’s eyes
-servant revolts BUT Cornwall fights and kills him
-C-Dog plucks out Gloucester’s remaining eye saying ‘Out vile jelly’
-Gloucester calls for Edmund but R tells him it was E ‘That made the overture of thy treasons to us’
-Gloucester realises he trusted wrong son (clarity in blindness)
-C-Dog got hurt in beef with servant
-Regan (baddie lowkey) orders remaining servants to ‘Go thrust him out at gates, and let him smell His way to Dover’ + help bleeding C-Dog
