King Lear

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Gloucester, like Lear, suffers from filial ingratitude. It is in his
castle that Lear is humiliated by his daughters and flees into the storm. Gloucester's sympathy helps Lear to Dover to meet
Cordelia, yet leads to his own blindness and his going to Dover for suicide.

Edgar becomes embroiled in the main plot when, disguised as a madman, he meets Lear on the heath. His destruction of
Oswald, Goneril's steward and his defeat of Edmund in the duel leading to Edmund admitting he has given secret orders for
the execution of Lear and Cordelia, together with his alliance with Albany, all relate him to the main plot.

However, it is - appropriately enough - the corrupt Edmund who becomes most entangled with the main plot. Ambition
drives him into Cornwall's hands, and to his double involvement with Goneril and Regan. His cruelty to his father rivals that
of the sisters as does his hate for his brother and theirs of Cordelia. Most significant of all, it is Edmund who has Cordelia
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