Cordelia (King Lear)
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Cordelia is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's tragic play King Lear. Cordelia is the youngest of King Lear's three daughters and his favorite. After her elderly father offers her the oppo
Cordelia, by William Frederick Yeames
Ford Madox Brown, Cordelia's Portion
Edwin Austin Abbey (1852–1911) Cordelia's Farewell, King Lear, Act I, Scene I
King Lear mourns Cordelia's death, James Barry, 1786–1788
Regan (King Lear)
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Regan is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's tragic play King Lear, the daughter of the king named after a King of the Britons recorded by the medieval scribe Geoffrey of Monmouth.
Cordelia (King Lear)
…asks for professions of love from his three daughters to determine how to divide the lands of his kingdom between them. Cordelia's sisters, Goneril and Regan, give deceitfully lavish speeches professing their love, flattering his vanity. Cordelia, seeing right through her sisters' feigned professions of love…
Goneril and Regan by Edwin Austin Abbey