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King Lear escape rooms

Five self-checking escape rooms on Shakespeare's King Lear, one for each act. Every answer comes from the act, so each room checks reading as well as recall, and they work with any edition. They suit high school English classes and homeschoolers from about grade 8.

No logins and nothing to install. Try the first two locks of any room free. See the rooms on all twelve plays.

Room by room

• Act 1: The Love Test. The love test, Cordelia's refusal to flatter, the banishing of Kent, France's marriage to a dowerless Cordelia, Edmund's forged letter, Kent's return in disguise and Lear's quarrel with Goneril.
• Act 2: The Doors Close. Edmund's staged fight with Edgar, Edgar's flight, Kent's quarrel with Oswald and his night in the stocks, Edgar's disguise, and Lear's daughters stripping him of his knights until he goes out into the night.
• Act 3: Blow, Winds. Lear in the storm with the Fool and Kent, the hovel and Poor Tom, Gloucester's decision to help the king, Edmund's betrayal of his father, and the blinding of Gloucester.
• Act 4: Every Inch a King. Edgar leading his blind father, Albany turning against Goneril, Cordelia's return with a French army, the cliff at Dover, Lear's madness, the death of Oswald, and Lear waking in Cordelia's care.
• Act 5: The Promised End. The sisters' rivalry for Edmund, the battle and the capture of Lear and Cordelia, Edmund's secret order, Edgar's challenge and victory, the deaths of Goneril and Regan, and the deaths of Cordelia and Lear.