![]() Goneril,Ħ0 Sir, I love you more than word can wield theĭearer than eyesight, space, and liberty, Which of you shall we say doth love us most, Long in our court have made their amorous sojourn The ⟨two great ⟩ princes, France and Burgundy,ĥ0 Great rivals in our youngest daughter’s love, Our daughters’ several dowers, that future strife We have this hour a constant will to publish Our son ofĤ5 And you, our no less loving son of Albany, To shake all cares and business from our age,Ĭonferring them on younger strengths, [while we ⌝Ĥ0 In three our kingdom, and ’tis our fast intent Meantime we shall express our darker purpose. ) The King is coming.Įnter King Lear, Cornwall, Albany, Goneril, Regan, GLOUCESTER He hath been out nine years, and away he ![]() KENT 30 I must love you and sue to know you better. His mother fair, there was good sport at his making,Īnd the whoreson must be acknowledged.-Do you Saucily to the world before he was sent for, yet was GLOUCESTER But I have a son, sir, by order of law,Ģ0 some year elder than this, who yet is no dearer in KENT I cannot wish the fault undone, the issue of it Whereupon she grew round-wombed and had indeed,ġ5 sir, a son for her cradle ere she had a husband GLOUCESTER Sir, this young fellow’s mother could, GLOUCESTER His breeding, sir, hath been at myġ0 charge. Weighed that curiosity in neither can make choice The division of the kingdom, it appears not whichĥ of the dukes he values most, for ⟨equalities ⟩ are so GLOUCESTER It did always seem so to us, but now in KENT I thought the King had more affected the Duke Before they can be rescued, Lear brings in Cordelia’s body and then he himself dies. Dying, Edmund confesses that he has ordered the deaths of Cordelia and Lear. Edgar then mortally wounds Edmund in a trial by combat. Edmund betrays Gloucester to Regan and her husband, Cornwall, who puts out Gloucester’s eyes and makes Edmund the Earl of Gloucester.Ĭordelia and the French army save Lear, but the army is defeated. Gloucester, appalled at the daughters’ treatment of Lear, gets news that a French army is coming to help Lear. ![]() Meanwhile, the Earl of Gloucester’s illegitimate son Edmund turns Gloucester against his legitimate son, Edgar. Goneril and Regan turn on Lear, leaving him to wander madly in a furious storm. ![]() ![]() The youngest, Cordelia, does not, and Lear disowns and banishes her. When he tests each by asking how much she loves him, the older daughters, Goneril and Regan, flatter him. King Lear dramatizes the story of an aged king of ancient Britain, whose plan to divide his kingdom among his three daughters ends tragically. ![]()
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