King Lear is another of Shakespeare's classic tragedies with many memorable lines on the price paid for vanity.* King Lear has three daughters, Goneril, Regan and the youngest the good Cordelia.* The King asks his daughters how much they love him and* thrives on excessive empty words of flattery from two of them and bristles with anger when plain speaking Cordelia does not wish to participate in such falsity.* The King banishes her and thereafter unfolds the tragedy of his own undoing.