Note to King Lear, 2.2.125: "the stocks"


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King Lear,
Act 2, Scene 2, line 125
The stocks are a wooden frame with holes for the ankles and, sometimes, the wrists. Putting a person in the stocks was meant to be humiliating for the prisoner, and so the stocks are an appropriate punishment for Kent's insolence.

The stocks shown below have places for two offenders to be stocked at the ankles.
Stocks