Kent returns disguised as Caius and takes service with Lear. Which event has already happened?

Edmund produces the forged letter against Edgar. What happens before Edgar becomes Poor Tom?

After Lear curses Goneril with "Hear, Nature, hear," which event comes next in the main action?

When Lear finds Kent in the stocks at Gloucester's castle, which event has not yet happened?

Edgar says, "Edgar I nothing am." What has just driven him to that disguise?

Gloucester resolves to help Lear reach Dover. Which event has already happened?

Gloucester is blinded in Act 3. Which event follows that scene?

Lear awakens in Cordelia's care. What has already happened in the Dover sequence?

Edgar kills Oswald and finds Goneril's letter to Edmund. What does Edgar do with that evidence?

Edmund orders Lear and Cordelia taken to prison. Which event comes after that order?

"Nothing, my lord." Who speaks this, and when?

"Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law / My services are bound." Who speaks this?

"See better, Lear; and let me still remain / The true blank of thine eye." Who says this?

"I am a man / More sinned against than sinning." Who speaks this, and where?

"Poor Tom's a-cold." Which speaker and situation fit the line?

"Out, vile jelly! / Where is thy lustre now?" Who speaks these words?

"As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods." Who speaks this after what event?

"O my dear father! Restoration hang / Thy medicine on my lips." Who speaks this?

"The wheel is come full circle; I am here." Who says this, and about what?

"No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison." Who speaks this, and to whom?

Lear warns Cordelia, "Nothing will come of nothing." What does the line reveal about him in that moment?

Cordelia says, "I cannot heave / My heart into my mouth." What does this reveal?

Edmund says, "Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit." What does the line reveal?

The Fool tells Lear, "Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise." What does this reveal about the Fool's role?

"O, reason not the need!" What does Lear's outburst reveal about his idea of kingship and dignity?

Gloucester says, "I stumbled when I saw." What does the paradox reveal?

Edgar declares, "Edgar I nothing am." What does this reveal about his disguise?

Albany asks, "Tigers, not daughters, what have you performed?" What does this reveal about him?

Regan says of Gloucester, "Hang him instantly." What does the command reveal?

Edmund says, "Some good I mean to do, / Despite of mine own nature." What does this reveal?

Why does Shakespeare place Edmund's forged-letter plot soon after Lear's love test?

Cordelia exits early, and the Fool soon becomes Lear's sharpest companion. What does that placement accomplish?

The storm follows the sisters' demand that Lear give up his knights. What does this ordering accomplish?

Why bring Poor Tom before Lear on the heath before Edgar can reveal himself?

Gloucester's blinding comes near the end of Act 3. What does that placement accomplish?

Edgar stages Gloucester's imagined fall at Dover before Gloucester meets Lear again. What does the scene do structurally?

The sisters' rivalry over Edmund is intercut with war and state business. What does that arrangement emphasize?

Lear and Cordelia imagine peace in prison, but Cordelia dies before that hope can unfold. What does the placement of her death do?

"As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods, / They kill us for their sport." Which figure and effect fit?

"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child!" Which reading of the figure is right?

"I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness." What figure is Lear using, and to what effect?

"Robes and furred gowns hide all." How does the figure work?

Lear calls Goneril "a boil, / A plague-sore... / In my corrupted blood." What does the metaphor assert?

"When we are born, we cry that we are come / To this great stage of fools." What does the metaphor do?

"Plate sin with gold, / And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks." What figure and claim are joined here?

Cordelia and Goneril answer the same public test in Act 1. What does their presence together establish?

Kent remains beside Lear in disguise after being banished. What does his presence do for Lear's characterization?

The Fool shivers beside Lear in the storm, and Lear asks him, "Art cold? I am cold myself." What does the Fool's presence bring out in Lear?

On the heath, Lear assumes Poor Tom's daughters must have ruined him. What does Poor Tom's presence reveal about Lear's state of mind?

Edgar guides the blinded Gloucester while hiding his identity. What does Edgar's presence accomplish?