king lear

the authors: charles and mary lamb

retold by : G.Horsley

editors:andy hopkins and jocelyn potter

written by: william shakspere

first he asked goneril , she declared that she loved her father more than words could tell

,that he was dearer to her more than the light of her eyes , even than life itself , but she was lying she never loved her father , such talk is easy to pretend where there is no real love.

the king was so pleased to hear it thinking that her heart went with her words ,he gave her and her husband one-third of his large kingdom

regan, his second daughter , who was as worthless as her sister , declared that the love that she had for her father was greater than her sister’s

again lear felt so happy to hear this , he also gave regan and her husband another third of his kingdom, equal in size to the share which he had already gave to goneril.

then turning to his youngest daughter , cordelia, whom he called his joy , he asked her what she want to say , but cordelia was upset by the claims made by her sisters , which she knew were only intended to persuade the king to give them part of his country, so she only

answered that she loved her father according to her duty , neither more or less .

the king was sucked from her speech , but cordelia really loved her father as much as her sisters pretended to do she was always telling him love words .

all his nobles was sucked , but none of them had the courage to act except the earl of kent

he tried to talk to cordelia when the angry king commanded him to stop or he would have him put to death , earl kent paid no attention, he had always been faithful to lear, whom he has hounored as a king , loved as a father , and followed as a master , he bigged the king to follow his advice , as he had so often done , he said that he rather die than let lear believe that cordelia loved her father less than her sisters , those words made the king more angry , as he ordered earl to leave the country , the duke of burgundy refused to marry cordelia under such conditions but the king of france understood why she has lost the love of her father .

he took her hands and said that her godness was worth more than the kingdom . he told her to say good bye to her sisters and to her father, even thought he was unkind to her but he said that she should go with him and be his queen and rule over the kingdom , she wished her father could be in better hands than there ‘s 

Regan and Genril refused to let the king Soilders get into the house will the rain began and it was cold outside then Lear called for his horse , saying that he would rather face the greatest anger of the storm outside than stay under the same roof with his ungratful daughters , then they shouted at him and let him go and shut their doors on him , the king has suffered from his daughters speeches and the way they were acting  and that really made him mad.

then gonril and regan get tired of showing love and duty to there husbands and made it clear that  they fell in love with the same man , who was called Edmund

at that time the duke of cornwall, regan’s husband died,

after that the jealousy beganed between regan and her sister , and goneril killed regan by giving her poison, but goneril’s husband discovered what she had done and put her in prison

then a bad end was waiting for cordelia the armies that was under the command of edmund

, caught cordelia and she was taken to prison and killed there,