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  2. Cordelia (King Lear) - Wikipedia

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    Cordelia is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's tragic play King Lear.Cordelia is the youngest of King Lear's three daughters and his favorite. After her elderly father offers her the opportunity to profess her love to him in return for one-third of the land in his kingdom, she replies that she loves him "according to her bond" and she is punished for the majority of the play.

  3. Cordelia of Britain - Wikipedia

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    Edwin Austin Abbey (1852–1911) King Lear, Cordelia's Farewell . The story was used by Shakespeare in his play King Lear.In Shakespeare's version, Cordelia's invasion of Britain is unsuccessful; she is captured and murdered, and her father does not retake the throne.

  4. King Lear - Wikipedia

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    King Lear, George Frederick Bensell. The Tragedy of King Lear, often shortened to King Lear, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It is loosely based on the mythological Leir of Britain. King Lear, in preparation for his old age, divides his power and land between his daughters Goneril and Regan, who pay homage to gain favour, feigning ...

  5. Francis Legat - Wikipedia

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    King Lear weeping over the body of Cordelia. Legat was born in 1755 in Edinburgh. He is sometimes stated to have been of French origin, and he may possibly have been a descendant of François Leguat. Legat studied at the Trustees' Academy under Alexander Runciman, and he was a student of the engraver Andrew Bell.

  6. Goneril - Wikipedia

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    Goneril is a character in William Shakespeare's tragic play King Lear (1605). She is the eldest of King Lear's three daughters. Along with her sister Regan, Goneril is considered a villain, obsessed with power and overthrowing her elderly father as ruler of the kingdom of Britain.

  7. A Ukrainian 'King Lear' comes to Shakespeare's hometown. Its ...

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    Ukrainians displaced by war find new purpose in Shakespeare's play of love, loss and madness, bringing their version to the bard's hometown.

  8. Cordelia - Wikipedia

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    Cordelia (King Lear), a central character in William Shakespeare's tragic play King Lear; Cordelia, the character who is the object of seduction in Kierkegaard's The Seducer's Diary (a long section in his book Either/Or) Cordelia, the main character of the eponymous Dutch adult comic strip by Belgian cartoonist "ILAH" (Inge Heremans)

  9. Edmund Kean - Wikipedia

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    Kean was the first to restore the tragic ending to Shakespeare's King Lear, which since 1681 had been replaced on stage by Nahum Tate's happy ending adaptation The History of King Lear. Kean had previously acted Tate's Lear, but told his wife that the London audience "have no notion of what I can do till they see me over the dead body of Cordelia."