King Lear
Introduction + Context
Plot Summary
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Act 1, scene 1 Act 1, scene 2 Act 1, scene 3 Act 1, scene 4 Act 1, scene 5 Act 2, scene 1 Act 2, scene 2 Act 2, scene 3 Act 2, scene 4 Act 3, scene 1 Act 3, scene 2 Act 3, scene 3 Act 3, scene 4 Act 3, scene 5 Act 3, scene 6 Act 3, scene 7 Act 4, scene 1 Act 4, scene 2 Act 4, scene 3 Act 4, scene 4 Act 4, scene 5 Act 4, scene 6 Act 4, scene 7 Act 5, scene 1 Act 5, scene 2 Act 5, scene 3
Themes
All Themes Fathers, Children, and Siblings Authority and Order Disintegration, Chaos, Nothingness Old Age Fooling and Madness Blindness and Insight
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Characters
All Characters King Lear Cordelia Goneril Edmund Edgar Kent Fool Albany France
Symbols
All Symbols The Stars, Heavens, and the Gods Animals Clothing and Costumes
Literary Devices
All Literary Devices Alliteration Allusions Dramatic Irony Foil Foreshadowing Genre Hyperbole Imagery Irony Metaphors Mood Motifs Parody Personification Setting Similes Soliloquy Style Tone
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King Lear

by

William Shakespeare

France Character Analysis

Read our modern English translation.
The husband of Cordelia. France is a benevolent character, who takes Cordelia as his wife without a dowry, when she has been rejected by her father, and even sends her back to England with the French army to rectify the wrongs carried out by Goneril and Regan against Lear. However, France only appears in the first scene.
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France Character Timeline in King Lear

The timeline below shows where the character France appears in King Lear. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Act 1, scene 1
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Disintegration, Chaos, Nothingness Theme Icon
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...Regan, Cordelia, and their attendants. Having sent Gloucester to fetch Cordelia's suitors, the lords of France and Burgundy, Lear announces that he has divided his kingdom into three parts. He intends... (full context)
Fathers, Children, and Siblings Theme Icon
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Gloucester returns with France and Burgundy. Lear addresses Burgundy first, telling him that Cordelia has been disowned. Cordelia interrupts,... (full context)
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