The line "Thou, Nature, art my goddess" opens this character's most famous speech, which mocks the "Fine word- 'legitimate'!"
This character accuses another of "conjuring the moon / to stand auspicious mistress" and wounds himself after hastily faking a duel. A character based on this man fled to Vancouver to avoid the Vietnam War; that character's return to Zebulon County is the cause for a pig roast at the beginning of a 1991 novel. This basis for Jess Clark in A Thousand Acres gives a letter revealing his father's knowledge of an imminent French invasion to the Duke of (*) Cornwall. The line "Thou, Nature, art my goddess" opens this character's most famous speech, which mocks the "Fine word- 'legitimate'!" and includes the questions "Wherefore base?" and "Why bastard?" In a fifth-act speech, he debates whether to ally himself with Regan or Goneril. For 10 points, name this illegitimate son of the Duke of Gloucester, who attempts to usurp the position of his brother Edgar in King Lear.
This character accuses another of "conjuring the moon / to stand auspicious mistress" and wounds himself after hastily faking a duel.
Edmund