Status Updates From King Lear

[Cordelia questions: why have her sisters husband, if they say they love the father]

[King Lear tells Cordelia she's a strange to his heart]

[Cordelia keeps silent]

[Regan, the second daughter, makes hers, her sister's words and feelings]

[Youngest daughter Cordelia says her love is stronger than her words; she refuses all joys, only her father's love fills her with joy]

[Cordelia says she loves her majesty, according to her duty, no more, no less]

[King Lear warns Cordelia to beware what she says, she may ruin her luck]

[Gloucester thinks the bastard must be recognized]

The king is coming

[King Lear asks to be handed a map of the three parts of the kingdom; says the princes of France have been, for long, courting his daughter]

[King Lear asks his three daughters: which one of you loves me the most?]

[Daughter Gonerill says she loves him more than words can tell, father is more precious than the sun]

NOTES and quotes


[Kent thought the king was fonder of Duke of Albany than of the Duke of Cornwall]

[Gloucester agrees it looks so, yet, now with the division of the kingdom, you cannot tel]

[Kent asks about a "son"]

[Gloucester has been in charge of educating him and asks: "don't you see there a sin?]

[Kent speaks of a so perfect a fruit]

[Gloucester has a son, yet not as dear...]

I also took out the no fear Shakespeare for this lmao