King Lear | Act II, Scenes 2 and 3: Questions and Answers

Study Questions
1. Why is Kent violently angry at Oswald, Goneril’s steward?

2. Does Oswald pretend that Kent is a total stranger to him? What proves him wrong?

3. Why is Kent placed in the stocks?

4. What does Regan think would be worse than putting her father’s servant in the stocks?

5. What is Cornwall’s response to Kent’s statement that he serves the King?

6. How does Gloucester feel about Kent being placed in the stocks?

7. Why does Kent speak in verse when he is alone in the stocks and in prose earlier in the scene?

8. Whose letter does Kent...

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