Lear harangues the storm, then meets Poor Tom, whom he treats as a counsellor. He leaves the castle in a rage, going out into a violent storm accompanied only by his Fool and Kent. The sisters meet together with Lear, and tell him to dismiss some and then all of his followers. Kent is sent ahead, but he quarrels again with Oswald, and is put in the stocks by Regan, who supports her sister’s attitude. Gonerill then quarrels with Lear, who leaves her castle to go to Regan’s. Kent insults Gonerill’s steward Oswald, and Lear takes him into his service. Lear begins a series of visits to Gonerill and Regan, followed by a disguised and loyal Kent. To avoid arrest, Edgar disguises himself as a mad beggar, Poor Tom. He convinces Gloucester that Edgar is plotting against him, and then persuades his brother to flee from his father’s anger. The Earl of Gloucester’s bastard son Edmund is planning to gain his brother Edgar’s lands by disinheriting him. When his advisor Kent attempts to tell Lear he is doing wrong, he too is banished. In a fit of rage, Lear banishes her and she leaves to marry the King of France. His eldest two, Regan (wife of Cornwall) and Gonerill (wife of Albany), respond to his request for a show of love, but Cordelia is unable to, not wanting to be hypocritical. Lear, King of Britain, in an attempt to avoid future strife, divides his kingdom between his three daughters.
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