pears in a new disguise to take up thischallenge and mortally wounds Edmund. Goneril sees thehandwriting on the wall and flees from the scene. Edmundconfesses all his crimes as a servant enters and announces thatGoneril has poisoned Regan and killed herself. Edmund thenreveals that he has ordered Lear's and Cordelia's deaths.Albany sends soldiers to prevent it, but he's too late. Learenters carrying the dead Cordelia in his arms. As he weeps forher, surrounded by the bodies of Goneril and Regan, thesurvivors can only stare in respectful awe. Albany, the victor of the battle, relinquishes rule of thecountry to Kent and Edgar, but the worn-out Kent doesn't accept.Edgar is left to restore order in England as the bodies of thedead are carried away. ...
