KENT, EARL OF


Meaning of KENT, EARL OF in English

Lear's faithful counselor in William Shakespeare's King Lear. Kent provokes Lear's wrath by coming to the defense of honest Cordelia and is consequently given 10 days to leave the kingdom or face execution. Instead Kent continues to serve the deranged king in the guise of a peasant named Caius.

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