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King Lear
By: William ShakespeareImprint: Yale University Press
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"King Lear", one of Shakespeare's darkest and most savage plays, tells the story of the foolish and Job-like Lear, who divides his kingdom, as he does his affections, according to vanity and whim. Lear's failure as a father engulfs himself and his world in turmoil and tragedy.
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| Title of eBook: King Lear | |
| Release Date: 05-01-2007 | |
| Publisher: Yale University Press |
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| SKU | 9780300134704 |
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King Lear
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) Old Man, Doctor, Captain, Herald, Knights, Messengers, Servants, Soldiers
Act 1
SCENE 1 King Lear's palace
ENTER Kent, Gloucester, and Edmund
Kent I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall.
Gloucester It did always seem so to us. But now, in the division of the kingdom, it appears not which of the dukes he values most, for qualities are so weighed that curiosity in neither 5 can make choice of either's moiety.
Kent Is not this your son, my lord?
Gloucester His breeding, sir, hath been at my charge. I have so often blushed to acknowledge him, that now I am brazed to it. 10
Kent I cannot conceive you.
Gloucester Sir, this young fellow's mother could, whereupon she grew round-wombed, and had (indeed) sir a son for her cradle, ere she had a husband for her bed. Do you smell a fault? 15
Kent I cannot wish the fault undone, the issue of it being so proper.
Gloucester But I have a
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