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King Lear SummaryThe play, King Lear by William Shakespeare, starts with noblemen Kent and Gloucester having a conversation and the audience finds out that Gloucester has two sons. Edgar who is his heir, and Edmund his unavailing son. This info. leads to the mini-plot. Then, Lear enters to say that he is going to end his lifes tasks and problems. He then points to the map, he tells the people there that he will split his reach into three parts. They are going to be given to his three daughters. The two oldest, Goneril and Regan, tell their father that their crawl in for him goes beyond expectations. The youngest one, Cordelia, tells him that she loves him, but only as she should love her father. He is then angered and disappointed at the lack of love by her. Then splits his land evenly between Goneril and Regan, and then banishes Cordelia. Then France decides to follow the now banished Cordelia. When Kent tries to defend Cordelia, he banishes him too. Meanwhile, Goneril and Regan decide that if Lear becomes too much of a nuisance, they will have to decide what disciplinary actions to take. In the developing subplot, Edmund complains of his unhappiness at being an illegitimateand thus, disinheritedson. As part of his plot to claim what is not his, Edmund gives a false letter to his father, Gloucester, declaring that Edgar is proposing that they kill their father and split the wealthiness between them. The cunning Edmu...