FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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A man named Poor Tom
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Lear’s servant
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Goneril and Regan’s servant
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A copy of his brother Edmund
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Detailed explanation-1: -The spirit, who soon emerges, is Edgar disguised as Poor Tom, pitiful pauper. The king tears off his own clothing, making himself look more like the unclad Poor Tom.
Detailed explanation-2: -To save himself from the men who are trying to track him down, Edgar decides to disguise himself as Poor Tom, a crazy, half-naked beggar. 3.4 Edgar is trying to find shelter from a storm when he runs into Lear, his Fool, and Kent (also in disguise as a servant). Edgar acts completely batty to avoid being recognized.
Detailed explanation-3: -After Gloucester leaves to find Lear, Edmund announces his plan to betray his father to Cornwall. Act 3, scene 4 Lear, Kent, and the Fool reach the hovel, where they find Edgar disguised as Poor Tom, a madman-beggar.
Detailed explanation-4: -In Shakespeare’s King Lear, Poor Tom-a figure of madness, poverty, and linguistic play-acts as the personification of the semi-apocalyptic state into which the social world of the play descends. Edgar first appears fully as Poor Tom in Act 3, in the midst of the storm, when Lear’s madness becomes fully displayed.
Detailed explanation-5: -Fleeing the manhunt that his father has set for him, Edgar disguises himself as a crazy beggar and calls himself “Poor Tom.” Like Lear, he heads out onto the heath.