yay lectures.... how could goneril kill her sister? lust above country and siblings took him 3 trumpets to call edgar, dad was dying, wanted father's blessing to kill edmund, explains everything to him, edmund/edgar fighting lear dying, holding cordelia as far as lear is concerned, no justice, run by angry gods, edgar gets power, becomes king of england, kent goes to die after refusing power edgar thinks all is just now that the bastard is kicked out and women don't have power edmund was ignored at the end, body not brought up because he's a bastard