All bodies are held together by internal forces.

Whosever it is, it will be seized.

We see little of Lear’s court in formal action, but there is moral cowardice in its general readiness to accede to unjust actions and say nothing. There is Goneril using Oswald to destabilize the king, Edgar’s depiction of a servingman’s life, the disguised Kent’s undiplomatic irritation of Cornwall and Regan and their spiteful retaliation.

He found it hard to duplicate the skills of his wife.