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King Lear -
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Why bastard wherefore base?" asks Edmund. The bitter illegitimate son resents his father and brother. He is determined to
"prosper" and "grow." Ruthlessly, he plays on old Gloucester's weakness and persuades him that Edgar seeks his death to
obtain his inheritance. Edgar, being told that Gloucester ....
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....cret 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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