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KING LEAR

KING LEAR. William Shakespeare. King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1603 and 1606. It is considered one of his greatest works. KING LEAR.

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KING LEAR

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  1. KING LEAR William Shakespeare

  2. King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1603 and 1606. It is considered one of his greatest works.

  3. KING LEAR Lear, king of Britain decided to divide his kingdom between his three daughters. Goneril and Regan, the two oldest, thanks to her flatters to her father, they catch all his inheritance, and they left out Cordelia, the one who loved her father without interest.

  4. Kent’s Earl, said about Cordelia that she was the one who real felt love to his father. What led to the exile of Kent.

  5. Cordelia married one of her suitors, the King of France.

  6. Lear goes out with his two oldest daughters. First with one, after that with the other one. They batted him, humiliated him, and they pushed him out the house.

  7. King’s had the chance to stay at a shack with his jester (Duke of Kent customized) and Tom, a tramp which real appearance is Edgar, genuine son of Gloster’s Lear, who’s trying to hide him, after his brother Edmond tried to kill him to win the her father’s heritage. Gloster’s Earl, decided to help Lear with King of France’s help. For that, he confess to Edmond about his plans and decided to go away to find Lear, but Edmond join forces with Cornwall and Regan, whom confess his plans.

  8. Somebody arrest Gloster, and they pull out his eyes, and they leave him away. Then, he understood Gloster, which was Edmond, and no Edgar who betrays him.

  9. In Dover, Kent and Edgar found Cordelia, and they tried to heal the king, meanwhile, Edmond decides to play the field to Goneril and Regan. Finally, it take place the unavoidable battle; in one hand Cordeliaa and Lear with the French army, and in the other, Edmond and Albany.

  10. During the battle, Lear and Cordelia goes for Edmond’s prison, who order to be executed the mates. Edgar fights against Edmond. He wins and discovered his identity, confessing all that he had felt until the moment, and his father died happy to see his son had helped him in his latest years of his life.

  11. In the middle of the scene, a solider alerts Albany about his women Goneril, who had been poisoned her sister Regan. After that, she killed herself with a dagger.

  12. That bloodshed up melts Edmond’s heart, who revoke the order of kill Lear and Cordelia. But they arrived in late, and Cordellia has been hung. Quite late, Edmond died because of injuries in a duel with Edgar. To finish, Lear show everybody the corpse of his unlucky daughter Cordelia. After be ashamed of his tears, he died.

  13. THE END

  14. By Marina & Ana Teacher, I’m Sorry for everything! Wiki is lovely haha!

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