Burgundy

Family: Burgundy · Role: duke · First appears: King Lear · Act I, Scene I

Life events

• Burgundy refuses to marry Cordelia without the dower Lear withdrew.(King Lear · Act I, Scene I)
  • With: Cordelia
  • “Since that respects of fortunes are his love, I shall not be his wife.”

King Lear · Act I, Scene I

• rivals with France “The princes, France and Burgundy, Great rivals in our youngest daughter’s love, Long in our court have made their amorous sojourn, And here are to be answer’d.”
• admired: Cordelia “My Lord of Burgundy, We first address toward you, who with this king Hath rivall’d for our daughter: what in the least Will you require in present dower with her, Or cease your quest of love?”

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Extracted from the original text of Shakespeare's Tragedies. Made with Rho MD.