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King Lear compendiumThe play, King Lear by William Shakespeare, starts with noblemen Kent and Gloucester having a conversation and the audience finds out that Gloucester has dickens sons. Edgar who is his heir, and Edmund his unimportant son. This info. leads to the mini-plot. Then, Lear enters to say that he is going to end his lifes tasks and problems. He then points to the map, he tells the people there that he result split his land into three parts. They are going to be tending(p) to his three daughters. The two oldest, Goneril and Regan, tell their father that their love for him goes beyond expectations. The youngest one, Cordelia, tells him that she loves him, simply only as she should love her father. He is then angered and scotch at the lack of love by her. Then splits his land every bit amidst Goneril and Regan, and then banishes Cordelia. Then France fixs to marry the now banished Cordelia. When Kent tries to defend Cordelia, he banishes him too. Meanwhile, Goneri l and Regan decide that if Lear becomes too much of a nuisance, they will have to decide what disciplinary actions to take. In the developing subplot, Edmund complains of his unhappiness at being an by-blowand thus, disinheritedson. As part of his plot to claim what is not his, Edmund gives a false letter to his father, Gloucester, declaring that Edgar is proposing that they kill their father and split the wealth between them. The cunning Edmu...