THEA 80K Lecture 3: King Lear -THEA80K
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Lear is over 80 years old, wants to maintain regal status while giving regan and the duke of cornwall and goneril and the duke of albany the kingdom to run. Goneril and regan claim that they love lear more than anything, lear rewards them with a part of the kingdom. Cordelia humiliates lear by refusing to suck up to him like regan and goneril just did. She is new adopted to our hate . Duke of kent defends cordelia, is exiled from the kingdom. Kent disguises himself as a servant, asks to serve lear. You have that in your face which i would fain call master authority . On the same day that lear separates the kingdom, cordelia is to choose a husband. Lear refuses to give a dowry along with cordelia made her worth nothing. Burgundy demands the dowry, lear refuses, burgundy refuses to marry cordelia. France (cid:1445)she is herself a dowry(cid:1446) takes her as queen of france.
