This Chapter begins by considering the vocal disguises Kent and Edgar put on to obscure their identities in King Lear. It then widens its scope to consider other ways voices are altered and speech is falsified, eventuating in an expressive crisis. Over the course of the play, speech is pushed to its breaking point, and characters are reduced to traumatized, repetitive inarticulacy. Yet even when words cannot wield the matter, the sound of the voice remains meaningful. The most powerful statements in the play are verbally spare but emotionally and ethically full. This bears out Levinas’s belief that the act of saying is more important than the content of the said. Contesting the idea that logos is the primary source of meaning, King Lear demonstrates that it is through phone that we undertake the most meaningful of actions: namely, disclosing and delivering ourselves to the other.