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King Lear
by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

Type of Work:

Tragic drama

Setting

Medieval England

Principal Characters

Lear, King of Britain
Cordelia, his faithful daughter
Regan and Goneril, his two mean-spirited daughters
The Dukes of Cornwall and Albany, their husbands
The Earl of Gloucester
Edmund, the Earl's treacherous son
Edgar, the Earl's true son (later disguised as a madman)
The Duke of Kent, Cordelia's loyal helper
Lear's Fool, a comical character

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