Kent comes to King Lear in disguise and offers his services as a servant. Not recognizing Kent, King Lear hires him. Lear is trying to find his Fool, who he hasn't seen for two days. The Fool has been pining away since Cordelia left for France.
Goneril's servants treat King Lear and his attending knight rudely. Oswald does not answer to Lear's call, and he speaks rudely to Lear's knight. When Lear asks Oswald who he is (meaning that he is the king), Oswald answers "my lady's father," denying the king's authority in his daughter's house (line 81). Lear is offended and hits Oswald. Kent reprimands the servant and kicks him out.
The Fool enters and reproaches Lear for alienating his two daughters by giving them their inheritance and disinheriting the third. He.....
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