Leaving It To Your Children Or Charity?

The story plays out in Britain with the elderly King Lear deciding how to apportion his riches among his three daughters. The largest stake, he determines, is to be given to the child who vows to love him most. In answer to the King’s variation of ‘How do I love thee’, the two wicked daughters, Goneril and Regan, play the flattery game; lavishly and falsely declaring love for their father. Cordelia, the third daughter, modestly and truthfully states that she loves her...