King Lear
King Lear
Definition
King Lear (lir)
noun
- a tragedy by Shakespeare (c. 1606)
- its main character, whose division of his kingdom between his older daughters, Goneril and Regan, and disinheritance of his youngest, Cordelia, lead to civil strife and his own insanity and death
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