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Prescribed Text: William Shakespeare, The Opening Scene of
King Lear.

The opening scene in any play is always a crucial one; this is
especially true in 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. In the first scene of King Lear all 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, my daughters, (since now will we divest us
both of rule, Interest of territory, cares of state), Which of you
shall we say doth love us most?" (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act
1, Scene 1, 47-50)
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