King Lear
Contents
About This Book................................................ix
Introduction...................................................xvii
Textual Note...................................................xxix
Some Essentials of the Shakespearean Stage.....................xxxi
King Lear......................................................1
An Essay by Harold Bloom.......................................195
Further Reading................................................207
Finding List...................................................213
Chapter One
CHARACTERS (DRAMATIS PERSONAE)
Lear (King of Britain)
Goneril, Regan, Cordelia (Lear's daughters)
Duke of Albany (Goneril's husband)
Duke of Cornwall (Regan's husband)
Earl of Kent
Earl of Gloucester
Edgar (Gloucester's older son)
Edmund (Gloucester's younger son, illegitimate)
King of France
Duke of Burgundy
Fool
Oswald (Goneril's steward)
Curran (Gloucester's servant)
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