King Lear
By William Shakespeare
Cover: King Lear (c. 1848-54), oil on panel by Ford Madox Brown (1821-1893) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1893)
The aged King Lear divides his kingdom between the two daughters who flatter him and banishes Cordelia, the one who loves him honestly. Stripped of power and driven out into a storm, he learns what he has thrown away, while a parallel plot of treachery unfolds around the Earl of Gloucester.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.