William Shakespeare's King Lear. The opening scene in King Lear serves to introduce

the characters and the plot line, and to show disorder in the Elizabethan order which is a

In the first scene of King Lear all of the main characters are introduced beginning

with Kent and Gloucester, King Lear, Goneril, Regan, Cordelia, Albany and Cornwall

soon follow. Shakespeare informs the audience of who the daughters are at the same

point that he reveals his intentions to divide the kingdom "Tell me

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