King Lear Actor/Character Breakout by Scene Each row in this table represents a scene in the play. Columns indicate the number of actors in each scene and the scenes in which the actors appear. For flexibility, red text indicates a character that can be played by the specific actor or any actor who has an "x" in that same row. If there are multiple character names in red text in the same row, those actors can swap roles among themselves. Act/ # of Scene Actors ACTOR 1 ACTOR 2 ACTOR 3 ACTOR 4 ACTOR 5 ACTOR 6 ACTOR 7 ACTOR 8 ACTOR 9 1.1 9 Lear Kent Gloucester/Albany Cornwall Goneril Regan Cordelia Edmund/France Burgundy 1.2 3 x x Gloucester Edgar x x x Edmund x 1.3 2 x x x x Goneril x x x Oswald 1.4 7 Lear Kent Albany Knight Goneril x Fool x Oswald 1.5 4 Lear Kent x x x x Fool x Gentleman 2.1 5 x x Gloucester Edgar/Cornwall x Regan x Edmund Curan 2.2 6 x Kent Gloucester Cornwall x Regan x Edmund Oswald 2.3 1 x x x Edgar x x x x x 2.4 9 Lear Kent Gloucester Cornwall Goneril Regan Fool Gentleman Oswald 3.1 2 x Kent x x x x x Gentleman x 3.2 3 Lear Kent x x x x Fool x x 3.3 2 x x Gloucester x x x x Edmund x 3.4 5 Lear Kent Gloucester Edgar x x Fool x x 3.5 2 x x x Cornwall x x x Edmund x 3.6 4 Lear Kent Gloucester x x x Fool x x Second Oswald/Third 3.7 8 x Servant Gloucester Cornwall Goneril Regan First Servant Edmund Servant 4.1 3 x Old Man Gloucester Edgar x x x x x 4.2 5 x Messenger Albany x Goneril x x Edmund Oswald 4.3 2 x Kent x x x x x Gentleman x 4.4 3 x x Doctor Messenger x x Cordelia x x 4.5 2 x x x x x Regan x x Oswald 4.6 5 Lear x Gloucester Edgar x x x Gentleman Oswald 4.7 5 Lear Kent Doctor x x x Cordelia Gentleman x 5.1 5 x x Albany Edgar Goneril Regan x Edmund x 5.2 2 x x Gloucester Edgar x x x x x Goneril/ Captain/ 5.3 9 Lear Kent/Herald Albany Edgar Messenger Regan Cordelia Edmund Gentleman Red Indicates a character that can be played by any available actor x Indicates an actor is not in the scene To access The Folger SHAKESPEARE please visit www.shakespeare.folger.edu. .