ACT III

1. How does the information that France sends troops

impact the political strife that is beginning in England?
(III, ivaried opinions)

 2. In what manner has Lear caused all the strife that

occurs between himself and his daughters? (III, ii)

 3. In what sense are the Fools assertions true? (III, ii)

 4. In what sense are the Fools assertions false? (III, ii)

 5. In what sense is it ironic that Gloucester confides his

good intentions in his illegitimate son, Edmund? (III, iii)

 6. Compare the madness of Lear to the madness of

Poor Tom (Edgar). (III, iv)

 7. How is Edmund rewarded for his treachery? (III, v)

 8. What are the judgments of mankind issued against

Goneril and Regan in Lears court? (III, vi)

 9. How is the blindness of Gloucester symbolic to the

blindness of Lear? (III, vii varied opinions)