France
Family: France · Role: king · First appears: King Lear · Act I, Scene I
Life events
- France accepts Cordelia without a dowry and makes her queen.(King Lear · Act I, Scene I · 📍 France)
- With: Cordelia
- “Thy dowerless daughter, King, thrown to my chance, Is queen of us, of ours, and our fair France”
- France supports Cordelia’s military effort to restore King Lear’s rights.(King Lear · Act IV, Scene IV)
- France’s forces march toward Cordelia’s position.(King Lear · Act IV, Scene IV)
- “The British powers are marching hitherward.”
King Lear · Act I, Scene I
- rivals with Burgundy “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.”
- courtship with Cordelia “Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon: Be it lawful, I take up what’s cast away. Gods, gods! ’Tis strange that from their cold’st neglect My love should kindle to inflam’d respect.”
King Lear · Act IV, Scene IV
- allies with Cordelia (France supports Cordelia's campaign to restore King Lear.) “Therefore great France My mourning and important tears hath pitied. No blown ambition doth our arms incite, But love, dear love, and our ag’d father’s right:”
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Extracted from the original text of Shakespeare's Tragedies. Made with Rho MD.