KING LEAR
Scene 1 Setting:Castle King: Dear daughters! I am old and I can die at any moment so I will divide my kingdom now Cordelia: How will you do it father? King: I will divide it according to your promise of love Regan: I will love you forever and ever my dad!!! Goneril: I will love you more than I can love anyone on earth!! King: What can you say Cordelia? You are too silent Cordelia: Nothing so important. I will love you as any daughter loves a father Scene 2 Setting: Castle King Lear: Watch your words Cordelia!!! If you think that, you are not longer my daughter!!! You will get nothing of my fortune Kent: Please my king, think it over. Don’t be so cruel with Cordelia.
King Lear: Goneril and Regan, my fortune will be divided into you two. Goneril, I will live in your house! Some time later Scene 3 Setting: Goneril’s house Goneril: .Father! I don’t want any of your servants in my house (She said angrily to the king) King Lear: Don’t dismiss any of my servants just because you dislike me! Scene: 4 Setting: Castle Oswald: Why did you send letters against the king? Kent: Help!! A murderer! He wants to kill me!! Oswald: I will kill you!
Scene: 5 Setting: Prison King Lear-. Who has trapped you here? Oswald-. Your daughter Regan and Cornwall, your son-in-law. ( The king unties Oswald) Scene: 6 Setting: Prison King Lear:Dear Goneril, on my knees I beg you to give me bed and food. Your sister Regan was very bad to me Goneril: Enough sir!!! Go back to my sister`s!! She did nothing wrong to you. Scene:7 Setting: Castle King Lear:Daughter, I gave you half of my kingdom, and you refused. Regan:I know, I don’t want only a half. I wanted all!!! Goneril:-Dad, better get out of here. (the king leaves the scene) Regan: He is old and stupid!!! ( le dice a Goneril criticando al rey) Gloucester:- I’ll go and find the king. Scene: 8
Setting: Forest Cordelia:- You must find him quickly,Kent! Kent:- Quiet! I will find him. Don’t worry! Cordelia:- Hurry up, please Scene : 9 Setting : Forest Kent : King! You are here!!!! Go to a shelter from the storm and wait there ! King : Go away, Kent! I want to be alone Fool: He is right, we must protect from the storm. Let’s Go!
Scene:10 Setting: At a hut in the forest Fool:I hope the carriage comes soon King:Yes,I don't want to wait any more here Fool: let's wait a little bit more Gloucester: Kent, protect the king please!!! His bad daughters Goneril and Regan will kill him to get his fortune now. Kent; Ok. I will Scene 11 Setting: Castle Regan’s husband: Where is your father? Edmund: I don’t know Regan's husband: He is a traitor. We will arrest him. He will pay for his betrayal. He didn’t help us trap the king. In fact, he was helping the king!!!! Edmund: No, he didn’t. You won’t find him!!! Scene 12 Setting: Castle Regan’s husband: We must find Gloucester! Regan: Yes, let's go Regan: Gloucester, you are here!!!! Regan´s husband: Now, you will learn your lesson (He blinds Gloucester with his sword) Scene: 13
Setting:Castle King:Who are you? Cordelia:- i am your daughter, have you forgotten me? King:- oh! Forgive me, i have forgotten you, and i have left my kingdom to Goneril and Regan Cordelia:- Father, don’t kneel, look at me, you are forgiven! Scene 14 Setting:Castle Goneril (to the audience): I will poison my sister Regan and in this way I will have my father´s money (Enters Regan) Regan: Hi, dear sister! Goneril: Hi, Goneril! Would you like some coffee? Regan: Yes, please ( Goneril prepares the coffee and poisons her sister) Kent: You killed your sister!!! Shame on you!! And you betrayed your husband!!! Goneril: this is not true!!! Kent: Yes, it is (They fight and Goneril kills herself with Kent’s sword) Scene 15 Kent: Dear King. I have bad news!!! Your daughter Cordelia has been trapped Lear: Who trapped her?It’s impossible. There must be a mistake Kent: The French troop and Edmund and there is something even worse Lear: Nothing can be worse than that!!!! Kent: Yes, my king. Look!!!! (The king looks and sees Cordelia dead) Lear: I can’t believe my eyes. This is too much for my poor old heart!! (He falls dead on the floor) THE END