Read-along
King Lear
An old king gives his kingdom away for a few sweet words, and walks out into the storm.
- Next cohort
- Next cohort 26 December
- Length
- Length 26 days
Shakespeare's King Lear, one scene a day for twenty-six days, from the king calling for a map of his kingdom to the British camp near Dover. An old king divides his country between the daughters who flatter him best and banishes the one who will not, while in the Earl of Gloucester's house a younger son sets out to take his brother's place. Read it a scene at a time over the turn of the year, and follow two fathers who have trusted the wrong children out onto a heath, into the worst storm anyone remembers.
Read one big book alongside other readers, a day at a time. Cohorts set off on the date above.
The first button needs the app on this device; the second gets it there.
Day by day
- Day 1. Act I, Scene IWilliam Shakespeare, 5 min
- Day 2. Act I, Scene IIWilliam Shakespeare, 5 min
- Day 3. Act I, Scene IIIWilliam Shakespeare, 5 min
- Day 4. Act I, Scene IVWilliam Shakespeare, 5 min
- Day 5. Act I, Scene VWilliam Shakespeare, 5 min
- Day 6. Act II, Scene IWilliam Shakespeare, 5 min
- Day 7. Act II, Scene IIWilliam Shakespeare, 5 min
- Day 8. Act II, Scene IIIWilliam Shakespeare, 5 min
- Day 9. Act II, Scene IVWilliam Shakespeare, 5 min
- Day 10. Act III, Scene IWilliam Shakespeare, 5 min
- Day 11. Act III, Scene IIWilliam Shakespeare, 5 min
- Day 12. Act III, Scene IIIWilliam Shakespeare, 5 min
- Day 13. Act III, Scene IVWilliam Shakespeare, 5 min
- Day 14. Act III, Scene VWilliam Shakespeare, 5 min
- Day 15. Act III, Scene VIWilliam Shakespeare, 5 min
- Day 16. Act III, Scene VIIWilliam Shakespeare, 5 min
- Day 17. Act IV, Scene IWilliam Shakespeare, 5 min
- Day 18. Act IV, Scene IIWilliam Shakespeare, 5 min
- Day 19. Act IV, Scene IIIWilliam Shakespeare, 5 min
- Day 20. Act IV, Scene IVWilliam Shakespeare, 5 min
- Day 21. Act IV, Scene VWilliam Shakespeare, 5 min
- Day 22. Act IV, Scene VIWilliam Shakespeare, 5 min
- Day 23. Act IV, Scene VIIWilliam Shakespeare, 5 min
- Day 24. Act V, Scene IWilliam Shakespeare, 5 min
- Day 25. Act V, Scene IIWilliam Shakespeare, 5 min
- Day 26. Act V, Scene IIIWilliam Shakespeare, 5 min