# Result number

Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.

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1

King Lear
[I, 1]

(stage directions)

35

Exeunt [Gloucester and Edmund].

2

King Lear
[I, 1]

(stage directions)

290

Flourish. Exeunt Lear, Burgundy, [Cornwall, Albany, Gloucester, and Attendants].

3

King Lear
[I, 1]

(stage directions)

309

Exeunt France and Cordelia.

4

King Lear
[I, 1]

(stage directions)

332

Exeunt.

5

King Lear
[I, 3]

(stage directions)

533

Exeunt.

6

King Lear
[I, 4]

(stage directions)

840

Exeunt [Lear, Kent, and Attendants].

7

King Lear
[I, 4]

Duke of Albany

880

Well, well; th' event. Exeunt.

8

King Lear
[I, 5]

(stage directions)

925

Exeunt.

9

King Lear
[II, 1]

Earl of Gloucester

975

Pursue him, ho! Go after. [Exeunt some Servants].
By no means what?

10

King Lear
[II, 1]

(stage directions)

1073

Exeunt. Flourish.

11

King Lear
[II, 2]

(stage directions)

1227

Exeunt [all but Gloucester and Kent].

12

King Lear
[II, 4]

(stage directions)

1588

Exeunt Lear, Gloucester, Kent, and Fool. Storm and tempest.

13

King Lear
[II, 4]

Duke of Cornwall

1615

Shut up your doors, my lord: 'tis a wild night.
My Regan counsels well. Come out o' th' storm. [Exeunt.]

14

King Lear
[III, 1]

(stage directions)

1676

Exeunt [severally].

15

King Lear
[III, 2]

(stage directions)

1759

Exeunt [Lear and Kent].

16

King Lear
[III, 4]

(stage directions)

1982

Exeunt.

17

King Lear
[III, 5]

(stage directions)

2005

Exeunt.

18

King Lear
[III, 6]

(stage directions)

2105

Exeunt [all but Edgar].

19

King Lear
[III, 7]

(stage directions)

2124

[Exeunt some of the Servants.]

20

King Lear
[III, 7]

Duke of Cornwall

2142

Edmund, farewell. [Exeunt Goneril, Edmund, and Oswald.]
Go seek the traitor Gloucester,
Pinion him like a thief, bring him before us. [Exeunt other Servants.]
Though well we may not pass upon his life
Without the form of justice, yet our power
Shall do a court'sy to our wrath, which men
May blame, but not control. [Enter Gloucester, brought in by two or three.]
Who's there? the traitor?