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This page is devoted to
Shakespeare's most wonderful heroine
Cordelia
This is a restoration, not a new interpretation! If you appreciate Shakespeare, you are going to enjoy this!
Cordelia, as King Lear's Fool.

Each year thousands of students of Shakespeare, the world over, are confronted with the same questions about what is arguably Shakespeare's greatest masterpiece - King Lear.
  • What became of Lear's wonderful Fool?

  • Who was the Fool anyway?

  • What really happens in the last moments of Lear's life?

  • Why does Cordelia have to die at the end of the play?

  • Why does Edgar wait so long to reveal himself to his father?

  • What is the relationship between the two texts of Shakespeare's King Lear?
    • The answers to these and other questions lie in the realization that Cordelia never went to France, as is normally assumed, but stayed behind and served her father disguised as his Fool.

    Concerning King Lear, H.A.Mason ("King Lear: The Central Stream" The Cambridge Quarterly Vol. II No. 1 1966-67 p. 25) wrote:

    "Although the critics by and large agree on a high estimate of the play, they agree on nothing else. There is therefore a task of mediating and searching for a reading that will command wider assent than any so far obtained."

    This website is designed to promote a reading of the play which, is much more in keeping with Shakespeare's other plays than interpretations that have been placed upon it since. We hope you enjoy your visit to this site and invite your questions and comments.

    She is herself a dowry.... Not all the dukes of wat'rish Burgundy Can buy this unpriz'd precious maid of me.

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