Fool

Family: Lear's court · Role: fool · First appears: King Lear · Act III, Scene II

Life events

• Gloucester, Kent, and the Fool carry King Lear away toward Dover for protection.(King Lear · Act III, Scene VI · 📍 Dover)
  • With: Gloucester Kent King Lear
  • “[Exeunt Kent, Gloucester and the Fool bearing off Lear.]”

King Lear · Act III, Scene II

• with King Lear (The Fool addresses Lear as 'nuncle' and accompanies him as his court fool.) “O nuncle, court holy-water in a dry house is better than this rain-water out o’ door. Good nuncle, in; and ask thy daughters blessing: here’s a night pities neither wise men nor fools.”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Shakespeare's Tragedies. Made with Rho MD.