![]() Cordelia bids her sisters farewell, and leaves with the King of France. The king sees this as rejection and excommunicates his daughter from all of the King’s shares. She reminds her father that she also will owe devotion to a husband when she marries, and therefore cannot honestly give all her love to her father. But when queried by Lear, Cordelia replies that she loves him as a daughter should love a father, no more and no less. Finally, it is Cordelia’s turn to express the depth of her love for her royal father. Her love, she says, is even greater than Goneril’s. She tells her father that her love for him is boundless. Lear announces that he has divided his kingdom into three shares to be given to his daughters as determined by their declarations of love for him. King Lear enters to a fanfare of trumpets, followed by his two sons-in-law, Albany and Cornwall, and his three daughters Goneril, Regan, and Cordelia. ![]() A conversation between Kent, Gloucester, and Gloucester’s son Edmund introduce the primary plot of the play. The play starts out in King Lear’s palace where the main characters of the play are introduced. ![]() William Shakespeare’s King Lear, is a story of power, tragedy, and mistrust. ![]()
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