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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 unimportant son. This info. leads to the mini-plot. past, Lear enters to say that he is going to end his lifes tasks and problems. He then points to the map, he itemizes the people there that he will split his land into triad fragments. They are going to be given to his three daughters. The two oldest, Goneril and Regan, tell their father that their enjoy for him goes beyond expectations. The youngest one, Cordelia, tells him that she delights 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 marry the now banished Cordelia. When Kent tries to defend Cordelia, he banishes him too. Meanwhile, Goneril and Regan decide that if Lear becomes too such(prenominal) of a nuisance, they will have to decide what disciplinary actions to take. In the growth 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 cleanup their father and split the wealth between them. The cunning Edmu...