Owlseyes ’s Reviews > King Lear > Status Update

[Gloucester says Edgar is no more his son; Edmund, thus, may inherit all his lands]

[Edmund tells Edgar to run away from there]

[there's a possibility of a war between Cornwall and Albany]

[Edmund fakes being hurt by Edgar]

[Fool asks, do you know why the nose is placed at the middle of the face?] [when a man cannot smell a thing, he may see it]

[King Lear says he'll change his attitude; he had asked Kent not to allow him to get mad]

[King Lear believes he'll recover his integrity]

[King Lear invokes nature to curse daughter: may her womb become sterile, and if conceiving, may the fruit be cruel and perverse]

[King Lear wonders if anyone knows him...who am I?]

[Gonerill tells him that his question is coherent with his bizarre behavior]

[The Fool tells Gonerill, the king is like a fountain without water]

[Gonerill tells father she would like him to recover good sense, and to drop those states of mind which have affected him lately]

[King asks the Fool since when does he sing; Fool replies: since you gave your daughther the right to treat you like a child; Fool wonders about the kind of kinships between the King and his daughters]

[Now I am worthier than you, I am a Fool, you are nothing]

[King affirms nothing will always be nothing; Lear asks: are you calling me crazy?]

[Kent- he's not completely fool]

[Fool says give me one egg; he'll give two crowns]

[Fool suggests to Kent that the King has lost sympathizers; he expelled his two daughters; Fool wants to teach Kent how to make a fortune; Kent thinks that's nonsense]

[Can't you make fruits out of nothing?]