Act III, Scene III
- Scene is Gloucester's castle with
Gloucester and Edmund
- Gloucester complains about Regan
and Cornwall's treatment of him
- They've ordered him to not help
Lear at all
- Edmund agrees that their behvaior
is bad
- Gloucester tells Edmund, secretly,
that he has a letter that is dangerous to Cornwall
- Gloucester tells Edmund that he
is going to try to help the King and Edmund must make an excuse for Gloucester's
absence
- Edmund, being the good son that
he is, runs right off to tell Cornwall all that he has just learned
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