Overview
Character Name
Cordelia
Show
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Late Teen, Young Adult
Role Size
Supporting
Voice
Spoken
Time & Place
A kingdom, sometime in antiquity
Analysis
Late teens – Mid 20s. A marriageable age. King Lear’s brutally honest youngest daughter. She has up to this point been Lear’s favorite child, and clearly loves her father. She is about to be married, either to the King of France or the Duke of Burgundy. When Lear asks
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