After being fooled by Edmund, Gloucester decides to pursue Edgar and punish him. Edgar runs away and disguises himself as a crazy beggar named “poor Tom.” Kent fights with Oswald, for he insulted Lear’s dignity, and gets put into the stocks by Regan and Cornwall. When King Lear sees Kent punished in a humiliating manner and finds out that his daughter and son-in-law placed him there, King Lear is furious and runs off to the woods. A storm brews.