King Lear.
By: Edited by Alfred Harbage.
Contributors: Harbage, Alfred, 1901- ed.
Edition: [Rev. ed.]
Series: The Pelican Shakespeare
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Lear, King (Legendary character) -- Drama; Inheritance and succession -- Drama; Fathers and daughters -- Drama; Kings and rulers -- Drama; Aging parents -- Drama; Britons -- Drama
Genres: Drama.
Description: Lear, the aging King of Britain, has chosen to lay aside the care of kingship and divide his kingdom between his three daughters. Their share is to be determined by their love for him. Two daughters speak with grandiose expressions of love while the third daughter finds nothing to say. The courts disinherit the third daughter, Cordelia. Much treachery, murder, and deceit ensued and Lear and Cordelia are captured and sentenced to death.