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4 days ago · Lear’s court jester, another truth-teller, is hanged. Cordelia, the noblest heart of all in this universe, loyal to truth and to her father, is murdered by the nefarious Edmund. Lear, gaining wisdom too late, does not survive the death of his beloved Cordelia. By story’s end, the stage is littered with the corpses of the good.
Lear arrives at Gloucester’s castle and notices that Kent is in the stocks. As Kent (still in disguise) is working for him, this upsets him. Kent explains why he got into a fight with Oswald and that Gloucester, Cornwall and Regan put him in the stocks as punishment. Lear asks to see the three, especially his daughter and her husband.
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5 days ago · Sitcom King Lear. A reflection on Norman Lear, Archie Bunker, and All in the Family. The recent death at the age of 101 of Norman Lear, creator of All in the Family and its improbable folk hero ...
5 days ago · Quote by Frederick Douglass: “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”.
1 day ago · The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610–1611, and thought to be one of the last plays that he wrote alone.After the first scene, which takes place on a ship at sea during a tempest, the rest of the story is set on a remote island, where Prospero, a complex and contradictory character, lives with his daughter Miranda, and his two servants: Caliban, a savage ...
