[DOC] [TLE] King Lear Summary - Shmoop [PAR] Free summary and analysis of the events in William Shakespeare's King ... 
Fearing for his life, Edgar runs away and disguises himself as "Poor Tom," a 
homeless beggar. ... Lear runs into "Poor Tom" (Edgar disguised as a naked and 
mad beggar) ... body countit's an important part of the genre of Shakespearean 
Tragedy. [DOC] [TLE] King Lear: madness, the fool and poor Tom - The British Library [PAR] Gillian Woods considers how the Fool and Poor Tom, two characters in King Lear 
who ... to go mad (think of Hamlet) or are wrongly taken as being mad (The 
Comedy of Errors). ... Questioning the nature of madness is part of the tragedy's 
larger .... In taking on the disguise of the beggar Poor Tom, Edgar sheds his 
noble... [DOC] [TLE] SparkNotes: King Lear: Character List [PAR] The King Lear characters covered include: King Lear, Cordelia, Goneril, Regan, 
Gloucester, Edgar, Edmund, Kent, Albany, Cornwall, Fool, Oswald. ... wishes to 
maintain the power of a king while unburdening himself of the responsibility. ... 
then assuming a disguise as a mad beggar to evade his father's men, then 
carrying... [DOC] [TLE] King Lear Act IV Summary and Analysis | GradeSaver [PAR] King Lear Summary and Analysis of Act IV ... The old man tells him a mad 
beggarman is present to which Gloucester replies that he cannot .... Oddly 
however, to the audience, must have been Edgar's desire to remain disguised. ... 
has separated himself from the evil of the two sisters, Cornwall, Edmund, and 
even Oswald. [DOC] [TLE] Poor Tom Familiarizing and Enacting Chaos in King Lear [PAR] In Shakespeare's "King Lear", Poor Toma figure of madness, poverty, and 
linguistic ... In the speech in which Edgar engenders the idea to disguise himself 
as Poor Tom, ... In Edgar's conception of the bedlam beggar, then, there is little 
division .... Gloucester and the mad bedlam; with this equivalence, these lines 
resonate... [DOC] [TLE] Sonnets & Poems - PlayShakespeare.com [PAR] In a fit of rage, Lear banishes her and she leaves to marry the King of France. ... 
To avoid arrest, Edgar disguises himself as a mad beggar, Poor Tom. ... Category
: Tragedy; Period written: 1605; First known performance: December 26, 1606... [DOC] [TLE] Shakespeare's King Lear - Analysis by Act and Scene and Timeline ... [PAR] An analysis by Act and Scene of every important event in King Lear and time ... 
Lear begins to feel remorse for his treatment of Cordelia (line 22), and the tragic 
note is struck in all its terror ... Edgar plans to disguise himself as a Bedlam 
beggar. ... to be crueler even than Goneril, and with the words "I shall go mad," 
line 280,... [DOC] [TLE] Norman Maclean, King Lear essay - University of Chicago Press [PAR] An essay on King Lear by Norman Maclean. ... and to most critics King Lear, 
although not the most flawless, is the most tragic of Shakespeare's tragedies. ..... 
in the playLear's Fool, Edgar who previously had decided to disguise himself 
as a ... the predicted way, and first to a complete identification with a mad beggar; 
then... [DOC] [TLE] <i>King Lear</i>: When comedy meets tragedy - The Tartan Online [PAR] Apr 28, 2008 ... King Lear: When comedy meets tragedy ... Edgar, following Edmund's advice and 
not knowing his half-brother's malicious intentions, disguises himself as a mad 
beggar who ends up traveling with King Lear and, at times, his... [DOC] [TLE] The Plot | King Lear | Royal Shakespeare Company [PAR] Watch our synopsis film or read the story of Shakespeare's King Lear. ... anger by 
running away and disguising himself as a mad beggar called 'Poor Tom'. ... 
suicide, it is left to Edgar to speak the moving lines that end this great tragedy. [DOC] [TLE] Two Kings - DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska -

Question: Edgar disguises himself as a mad beggar in this tragedy about a mad king
Answer: King Lear