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Edmund's father

Gloucester

Edmund's legitimacy status

Illegitimate

Edmund's role in King Lear

Central antagonist

Edmund's half-brother's name

Edgar

Mnemonic: M in Edmund = ?

Mean

Edmund's allies (2 daughters)

Goneril and Regan

Edmund's 3 key personality traits

Cunning, ambitious, ruthlessly self-serving

Edmund's main skills

Manipulation and deceit

Edmund's internal conflict focus

Overcoming his illegitimacy

How Edmund dies

Duel with Edgar

Edmund's tragic flaw

Unchecked ambition and duplicity

Result of Edmund deceiving Gloucester

Edgar's disinheritance

Nature of Edmund's alliances

Self-serving, not genuine

Form of most Edmund quotes

Soliloquies

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