FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 123: I leave undiscussed the position of _King Lear_ in
relation to the 'comedies' of _Measure for Measure_, _Troilus and
Cressida_ and _All's Well_.]
[Footnote 124: See Note R.]
[Footnote 125: On some of the points mentioned in this paragraph see
Note S.]
[Footnote 126:
'_Kent._ I thought the king had more affected the Duke of
Albany than Cornwall.
_Glos._ It did always seem so to us: but now, in the division
of the kingdom, it appears not which of the dukes
he values most.'
For (Gloster goes on to say) their shares are exactly equal in value.
And if the shares of the two elder daughters are fixed, obviously that
of the third is so too.]
[Footnote 127:
I loved her most, and thought to set my rest
On her kind nursery.]
[Footnote 128: It is to Lear's altered plan that Kent applies these
words.]
[Footnote 129: There is talk of a war between Goneril and Regan within a
fortnight of the division of the kingdom (II. i. 11 f.).]
[Footnote 130: I mean that no sufficiently clear reason is supplied for
Edmund's delay in attempting to save Cordelia and Lear. The matter
stands thus. Edmund, after the defeat of the opposing army, sends Lear
and Cordelia to prison.
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