Shakespeare Great Tragedy

What Only a Joke Can Say

Doubt 13, The Fool Beside the King

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Before the old king one man trips another, sending him sprawling.
Illustration by John Gilbert, engraved by the Dalziel Brothers, The Plays of Shakespeare, ed. Howard Staunton, Routledge, 1858-64Original

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Lear has given away the whole kingdom and is at his eldest daughter’s house. A hundred knights have come with him. The crown is gone and the name of king is left.

The servants of that house begin to treat him a little differently. They come slowly when called and answer shortly when asked. Lear notices, and at first puts it down to his own imagining.

A strange servant comes into the house. His speech is rough and he looks people in the face. It is Kent, in a changed face.

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