King Lear: Act III Scene i
Study Guide
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This act is a significant and fast moving one. Act III scene i is designed to inform the audience of the political unrest and to set up the next important situation. This is a difficult act to stage with its fierce storm. However, the Elizabethan audience would have understood that it stood not only for the physical storm raging outside, but also the one raging in Lear. They would have seen Lear as a “the little world” meaning he is a microcosm that represents and/or reflects what is going on in the macrocosm of the universe. When it is wrong with Lear, so is it wrong with the universe.
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This short scene gives us a lot of information designed to help us understand what is happening at large. Explain the what is going on with/is important concerning:
Albany & Cornwall
France
King Lear
Cordelia
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