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  1. Tragedy by William Shakespeare, first
  2. performed 1605-06. Lear, king of Britain,
  3. favours his grasping daughters, Goneril and
  4. Regan, with shares of his kingdom but refuses
  5. his third, honest daughter, Cordelia, a
  6. share. Rejected by Goneril and Regan, the old
  7. and unbalanced Lear is reunited with Cordelia
  8. but dies of grief when she is murdered.
  9.