One of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies of love, vanity and relationships told in simple prose.King Lear’s vanity blinds him and he banishes his beloved daughter Cordelia from his Kingdom. Goneril and Regan, his other daughters, between whom he has divided his country, have ungratefully turned him out of their houses. Meanwhile Edmund, the illegitimate son of Gloucester tries to usurp his brother Edgar and ends up reaching for the crown.