Changing the setting, time, character's names, and small events, Smiley finished her novel with an extreme comparison to Shakespeare's Lear. ... The first example of this is near the beginning when Lear reveals he is splitting up his kingdom among his three daughters. This leads to the daughters ruling the kingdom while their father is still alive. ... At the opening of the play, Lear decides to split his kingdom between his three daughters; this is the first time the reader is exposed to the theme of inversion of the natural order. ... Still, similar to the play, when his younges...

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His third daughter, Cordelia, was shunned upon and left France and Lear. ... In the beginning of Act III Lear proclaims his sorrow and regret and for the first time the audience sees Lear loosing his grip of sanity. ... "Twas this flesh begot Those pelican daughters." ... Meanwhile Cordelia is back in France at the same time and takes Lear into her care. ... Lear must live with the fact that he betrayed the one loyal daughter he had and honored the two disloyal daughters. ...

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His two eldest daughters overwhelmed their father with expressions of love, but the youngest told her father that she loved her father as a daughter should. Enraged at his youngest daughter's reply, Lear drove her into exile and divided the kingdom between his two eldest daughters. ... Hence, the king went in search of his youngest daughter. ... Shakespeare utilized this British legend to create what is arguably one of the greatest tragedies of all time. ... He uses these tools to interrupt the mounting tension while making his points at the same time. ...

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In November 27, 1582, Shakespeare was allowed to get married, and at his time he was 18, to Anne Hathaway, who was 26. They had three kids, two of them being twins named Hamnet (boy) and Judith (girl), and the other being a daughter named Susanna. ... Around the time of the fire Shakespeare retired to Stratford, where he had established his family and become a prominent citizen. ... Shakespeare left the bulk of his estate to his daughter Susanna and the sum of 300 pounds to his daughter Judith. ... Their daughter died childless. ...

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The first introduction to "good nature" is Cordelia, King Lear's youngest daughter. ... Her father, King Lear, is about to step down as king and divide his throne among his three daughters. Lear has his daughters compete for their inheritance. ... Regan and Goneril, Lear's older daughters, use flattery to prove their love. ... He is very brash and quick-tempered, which is not necessarily a good trait, but at the same time not necessarily purely evil. ...

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The first introduction to "good nature" is Cordelia, King Lear's youngest daughter. ... Her father, King Lear, is about to step down as king and divide his throne among his three daughters. Lear has his daughters compete for their inheritance. ... Regan and Goneril, Lear's older daughters, use flattery to prove their love. ... He is very brash and quick-tempered, which is not necessarily a good trait, but at the same time not necessarily purely evil. ...

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The setting of King Lear is as far removed from Shakespeare's time as the setting of any of his other plays, dramatizing events from the eighth century b.c. ... Annesley's youngest daughter, Cordell, successfully defended her father against her sister. ... Annesley's youngest daughter, Cordell, successfully defended her father against her sister. ... Annesley's youngest daughter, Cordell, successfully defended her father against her sister. ... Annesley's youngest daughter, Cordell, successfully defended her father against her sister. ...

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It is evident that the King is more "sinned against than sinning-, as his daughters betray him, and conspire to kill him. After dividing his kingdom, Lear grants everything to his daughters on the condition that he retains the title as King, keeps his entourage, and that he would stay with each daughter for a certain time. ... Lear becomes heart broken and turns to his other daughter, Regan, to seek shelter. ... The king has given up everything for his daughter, yet their corrupt use of power turns them into greedy and ungrateful beasts, who refuse to give the King his pride and honour. ....

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Like most things in life there is a limit, a limited time of when we can resolve this problem and a limited time of how much our spirit can handle before we break down for good. When King Lear and Cordelia were sent to prison it was not to their knowledge that this would be the last time that the two would be together. ... Cordelia was murdered by one of the guards sent by Edmund; Lear after the murder of his daughter killed the guard. King Lear brings the corpse of his youngest daughter out and exclaims thoughts of grief and horrible guilt. He then dies of a broken heart because of the loss o...

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The youngest daughter in her family, she inherited much of her father's landowning and farming estate when he died. ... It is surmised by scholars that Shakespeare attended the free grammar school in Stratford, which at the time had a reputation to rival Eton. ... William Shakespeare wrote his will in 1611, bequeathing his properties to his daughter Susanna who married in Dr. ... To his surviving daughter Judith, he left 300 pounds, and to his wife Anne left "my second best bed." ... During Shakespeare's time after a graveyard is full they would dig up a corpse and burn the bone...

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One of these plays "King Lear" tells the story of a King with 3 daughters and an Earl with 2 sons 1 legitimate and 1 illegitimate. ... This is because the play is set in pre-Christian Britain and during this time in history people believed that the gods controlled everything including peoples fortunes. ... We meet Edmund for the first time he is listening to a conversation Kent and Gloucester are having about the problems Lear will have splitting his land between his 3 Daughters. ... In the next scene we see Edmunds first soliloquy in this soliloquy he shares this f...

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Together, they had three children, two daughters and a son. ... Together they had a daughter, Elizabeth, who was also Shakespeare's first grandchild. ... During the time of Shakespeare, we are still not sure what happened within seven years after the birth of his final children. ... In 1593, all theatres were closed due to the plague, but during that time, Shakespeare created two powerful poems called Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. ... Since Hamnet, Shakespeare's only son died, he left most of his possessions to his daughters. ...

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Williams Shakespeare's "The Tempest,"" is the story of Prospero and his daughter Miranda. Prospero is betrayed by his brother and he is forced onto a ship to die with his daughter. ... This illustrates Prospero's paternal and loving side to his daughter. ... Some of the many examples of this are "abysm of time "(Act 1, Scene 2, Line 50) and also just simple phrases like "thou hadst " and "piece of virtue"" which was used to describe Miranda's mother. ... He decides that it is time for him to teach Miranda about her past. ...

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The sub-plot, of Gloucester and his sons and the main plot of King Lear and his daughters, enriched the play by comparing and contrasting the two families. ... Lear expects to live with them, along with his servants, but the daughters steadily reduce the number of servants he is allowed to nothing. ... When he wakes from his unconscious state, he finds himself with his loving daughter, Cordelia, although he does not recognize her. ... Here in the sands thee I'll rake up, the post unsanctified of murderous lechers; and in the mature time with this ungracious paper strike the sight of the...

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When Lear decides to abdicate his throne to his three daughters, he asks them to tell him how much they love him. ... Following this, Lear banishes Kent, his most loyal servant, and his youngest and previously most loved daughter Cordelia. Lear's only condition to the division of his country is that he maintain the title of King and be allowed one hundred knights that travel with him from his other two daughter's houses, one month at a time. ... When he is cast out of his own kingdom, Lear becomes caught in a storm and begins to lose his sanity because he cannot bare the treatment by...

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Shylock is angry about the loss of his daughter and money, but glad that he'll have the chance to take vengeance on Antonio. ... His daughter leaves him, with his money and her Christian lover. ... Today, much more so than in Shakespeare's time, racism is not tolerated and we feel for Shylock. ... In the end Shylock loses everything of importance to him, his wealth, his daughter, and his religion. ...

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Shakespeare is considered to be the greatest playwright of all time. ... She was twenty-six, and he was only eighteen at the time. ... In 1607, his daughter Susana got married. Shakespeare's other daughter, Judith, got married in 1616. ... By that time, he had joined one of the city's repertory theater companies. ...

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Shakespeare is considered to be the greatest playwright of all time. ... She was twenty-six, and he was only eighteen at the time. ... In 1607, his daughter Susana got married. Shakespeare's other daughter, Judith, got married in 1616. ... By that time, he had joined one of the city's repertory theater companies. ...

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Shakespeare is considered to be the greatest playwright of all time. ... She was twenty-six, and he was only eighteen at the time. ... In 1607, his daughter Susana got married. Shakespeare's other daughter, Judith, got married in 1616. ... By that time, he had joined one of the city's repertory theater companies. ...

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Mary and John Shakespeare became parents for the first time in September of 1558, when their daughter Joan was born. ... In 1569, another child came into the lives of John and Mary Shakespeare, and was named after their first daughter, Joan. ... A fourth daughter came into the lives of John and Mary Shakespeare in 1571, and her name was Anne. ... By this time, Shakespeare had long since moved to London to realize his dreams on the English stage. ...

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As Alex Gilbertson states, "this was not a glorious time for most women because they were looked down upon and faced oppression from the men of the society.... Here it is evident that Polonius uses his daughter for his own desires. ... He speculates his daughter's description of madness from the love which is to his advantage because it can mean that Ophelia will marry into royalty which would bring him up in status. ... With the loss of her father, virginity and brother being away, Ophelia does not have anything left for a woman during her time. ...

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Lear is dividing up his land and giving it to his three daughters and he wants to keep the privileges. Lear also is blinded by the flattery of his two oldest daughters. ... We see this when Goneril is talking to Regan and Goneril says: The best and soundest of his time hath been but rash; then must we look from his age to receive, not alone the imperfections of long-engrafted condition, but therewithal the unruly waywardness that infirm and choleric years begin with them. ... And this is when he finally realizes that his two oldest daughters never really did love him that it w...

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The play's complexities, highlighted through a profound investigation into the nature of life, have caused it to stand the test of time, still appealing to the contemporary responder. ... In the beginning of the play the proud and self-seeking King Lear attempts to divide his kingdom between his three daughters and is quick to value appearances above reality. He demands his daughters to flatter him publicly in order to decide who is most worthy of his kingdom, this clearly demonstrated when he says "which of you shall we say doth love us most?...

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Shakespeare's King Lear, is a story that takes many themes and relates them into one story, that has tested time for hundred's of years. ... His one daughter that he truly loved, is the one lady that actually had enough dignity to speak her mind, and not be tricked into buying her love from her father. ...

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Anne was the daughter of a farmer, 26 years old and pregnant. ... Considered by many to be the greatest dramatist of all time, Shakespeare's current reputation did not come about until the mid 18th century. Yet, his own competition, Ben Jonson, had declared Shakespeare was, "not of an age, but for all time." ... While the drama of his own life has been lost the dramas he left behind will astound us for all time. ...

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