Summary of Synopsis

• King Lear becomes old and tired and therefore decides to retire and split his kingdom between his three daughters. But first he wants to find out who loves him most. Goneril and Reagan being wicked and cunning professed their love for their father with fakery and extravagent gestures while his youngest daughter, Cordelia knows that she need say nothing to her father for love so string cannot be put into measurable words. however, King Lear thinking she is disgraceful and not worthy, gives her nothing and splits his kingdom between Goneril and Reagan, keeping 100 kinsmen for himself.
• The Earl of Kent, being one of the King's trustworthy and favorite courtiers vouches for Cordelia but is banished for his betrayal yet he actually returns in disguise of a servingman.
• Cordelia marries the King of France and inherits the lands and prfits of her husband, including an army.
• King Lear goes to live with Goneril, yet with her hatred of her father she commands her servants to ignore him and refuse his orders. She restricts him of his kingsmen to only a few and sends him off to her sister's.
• Her sister, boasting of more hatred for their father, treats him worse and takes away more and more of his kingsmen. Their father seeing that they mean to drive him away wanders out into the wilderness on a stormy night in despair and misery only to be accompanied by his fool and then met by The Earl of kent, who then upon finding out what has happened goes to tell Cordelia in the court of France.
• Cordelia brings an army to Dover and looks after her father while Goneril and Reagan bring their army to fight back and were victorious. They have King Lear and Cordelia thrown in jail with Cordelia to be hanged. Meanwhile Goneril's husband, Duke of Albany, finally realizes how wicked his wife is and so upon hearing this Goneril kills herself not before giving a deadly poison to her sister out of jealousy and both sisters die.
• The Duke of Albany wishes to warn and stop Cordelia's hanging in light of the death of his wife and sister but is too late and she suffers the same fate as her sisters. King Lear, being alone and weak, dies.