Cornwall
Play
Summary
Cornwall is Regan's husband and a figure of undiluted brutality. He puts Kent in the stocks, acts as Regan's enforcer against Lear, and most infamously presides over and personally carries out the blinding of Gloucester — an act of such savage cruelty that one of his own servants rebels and wounds him mortally. He dies offstage from that wound, one of the few instances in King Lear where villainy is immediately punished.
Notable Quotations
"See't shalt thou never. Fellows, hold the chair. / Upon these eyes of thine I'll set my foot." *(III.7)*
"Bind him, I say." *(III.7)*