Now, as for you, if you trust me enough to speed to Dover you will find some men who will thank you for delivering an honest account of the unnatural and maddening sorrow that the King has got cause to complain of. But there’s no doubt that an army is coming to this divided kingdom from France who, knowing too well how unguarded we are, has already established a secret foothold in our best ports and are on the point of showing themselves in their full power. They have servants – as which great ones don’t? – who seem no less than they appear but are spies supplying France with intelligence about our kingdom: either the quarrels and plottings of the Dukes or the rough way both of them have handled the kind old King – or something more sinister, of which those are only the outward signs. There is a rift between Albany and Cornwall, although they’ve been able to conceal it with deceitfulness. ‘Sir, I do know you,’ he said, ‘ and because of that I’ll confide something important in you. ‘No-one, except the fool, who’s working hard to laugh off his master’s deeply felt injuries.’ On this particular night, when even the famished mother bear will take cover, and the lion and the starving wolf are keeping their fur dry, he runs, bareheaded, and shouts out recklessly to the tempest.’ He struggles in his pathetic human state to out-storm the to-and-fro thrusting of the wind and rain. He’s tearing his white hair, which the sudden gusts catch with eyeless rage in their fury and think nothing of it. ‘He’s telling the wind to blow the earth into the sea, or raise the swollen waters above the coast, that things might change or disappear. ‘He’s trying to cope with the angry elements,’ said the knight. It was the knight who had accompanied the king in his coach. ‘Someone just as disturbed as the weather!’ ‘Who’s there, besides foul weather?’ he shouted. Kent struggled toward the dim figure and managed to reach him. It would be impossible to find the King in these conditions but, unusually for such a wild night, there was someone out here with him. The rain came down in cutting sheets, blown about by a screaming gale. The storm that had threatened during Lear’s encounter with his daughters had broken and the heath had been transformed into a wild, noisy and wet hell, with blinding lightning and deafening thunderclaps. Kent had begun his search for the King there. Gloucester’s castle was situated on the edge of a vast heath. Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order.
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