Below is a list of all King Lear characters from Shakespeare's play: KING LEAR, King of Britain, GONERIL, REGAN, & CORDELIA, Daughters to Lear. EARL OF
King LearKing Lear with the body of Cordelia, illustration by Friedrich Pecht inShakespeare-Galerie, 1876. play by Shakespeare Print Also known as: “The Tragedy of King Lear” Written by David Bevington Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Humanities and Chair of Thea...
For Lear, there are... Fool After an exile of Cordelia, Fool becomes not just the king's defender, but his conscience. He, like a theater prompter, comments on all actions and conversations of the characters, suggesting the correctness about the choice they made. Although Fool is loyal to...
King Lear Related Characters:King Lear,Cordelia Related Themes: Act 5, scene 3 Explanation and Analysis—Lear's Howl: Few playwrights craft tragedies as affecting and emotional as Shakespeare, and he employed this skill to its fullest extent in the haunting closing sequences ofKing Lear. In Act...
The King of France has come to England to woo Lear’s remaining unwed daughter, Cordelia. Read more … Duke of Burgundy The Duke of Burgundy has come to England to woo Lear’s remaining unwed daughter, Cordelia. Read more … Duke...
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King Lear: Directed by Richard Eyre. With Jim Broadbent, Jim Carter, Tobias Menzies, Emily Watson. An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
The characters inKing Learare members of the royal court. In many ways, the play is a family drama, as Lear and his three daughters, Cordelia, Regan, and Goneril, navigate the issue of succession. In a parallel and related drama, the Earl of Gloucester and his two sons, one legitimate...