King Lear
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Plot Summary
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Themes
All Themes Fathers, Children, and Siblings Authority and Order Disintegration, Chaos, Nothingness Old Age Fooling and Madness Blindness and Insight
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All Characters King Lear Cordelia Goneril Edmund Edgar Kent Fool Albany France
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King Lear

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William Shakespeare
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