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Shakespeare’s KING LEAR includes an interesting subplot. Edmund, the son of the wealthy and powerful Earl of Gloucester, is not an heir to the Earl because the Earl was not married to Edmund’s mother. The Earl had had an affair. Thus, Edmund’s half-brother Edgar is the heir. Edmund bitterly resents the stigma of illegitimacy andContinue reading “King Solomon and the Oops Babies. 1 Chronicles 2 and 3.”