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(CK)King Lear Charac
(CK) King Lear Characters and Descriptions
Character | Description |
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King Lear | old ruler of England who retires |
Goneril | Lear's oldest daughter married to the Duke of Albany |
Regan | Lear's middle daughter married to the Duke of Cornwall |
Earl of Gloucester | a nobleman loyal to Lear who has one bad and one good son |
Oswald | Goneril's steward |
Duke of Cornwall | husband of Regan |
King of France | suitor and later husband to Cordelia |
Edmund | the bad, younger son of the Earl of Gloucester |
Cordelia | Lear's youngest and loyal daughter |
Fool | court jester to King Lear |
Duke of Albany | husband of Goneril |
Edgar | the good, older son of the Earl of Gloucester |
Earl of Kent | loyal follower of Lear who disguises himself as Caius |