Act III, Scene VII
- Cornwall writes a letter to Albany
informing him that the French Army is near
- Cornwall wants his army to find
Gloucester
- Cornwall tells Edmund to leave
because he shouldn't be at his father's sentencing
- Albany and Cornwall decide to work
together against France
- Oswald reports that Gloucester
has hidden Lear in dover with well-armed friends
- Cornwall sends servants to capture
Gloucester
- Cornwall questions Gloucester while
Regan plucks Gloucester's beard
- Gloucester proclaims that he sent
Lear to be protected from Goneril and Regan's cruelty
- Cornwall gouges out one of Gloucester's
eyes and crushes it with his foot
- Regan wants Cornwall to do the
other one
- One of Cornwall's men pulls his
sword in defense of Gloucester
- He wounds Cornwall but is killed
by Regan
- Cornwall pulls out the other eye
- Gloucester screams for Edmund
- Regan gives away Edmund as the
informent
- Gloucester realizes his mistake
in believing Edmund
- Prays for Edgar's well-being
- Regan orders that Gloucester be
thrown out of the castle to "smell" his way to Dover
- Cornwall orders that the body of
the dead servant be thrown upon a dunghill
- Gloucester leaves, still bleeding
- Horrified servants express dismay,
and agree to follow Gloucester, help with bleeding and have Tom o'Bedlam
take him whereever he needs to go
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