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class="vector-toc-text"> 2.5 Act V </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Act_V-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sources" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sources"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3 Sources </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Sources-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Sources subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Sources-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Changes_from_source_material" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Changes_from_source_material"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.1 Changes from source material </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Changes_from_source_material-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Date_and_text" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Date_and_text"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4 Date 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class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Psychoanalytic_and_psychosocial_interpretations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.2 Psychoanalytic and psychosocial interpretations </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Psychoanalytic_and_psychosocial_interpretations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Christianity" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Christianity"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.3 Christianity </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Christianity-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Performance_history" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Performance_history"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6 Performance history </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Performance_history-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Performance history subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Performance_history-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-17th_century" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#17th_century"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.1 17th century </div> </a> <ul id="toc-17th_century-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-18th_century" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#18th_century"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.2 18th century </div> </a> <ul id="toc-18th_century-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-19th_century" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#19th_century"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.3 19th century </div> </a> <ul id="toc-19th_century-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-20th_century" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#20th_century"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.4 20th century </div> </a> <ul id="toc-20th_century-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-21st_century" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#21st_century"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.5 21st century </div> </a> <ul id="toc-21st_century-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Adaptations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Adaptations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7 Adaptations </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Adaptations-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Adaptations subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Adaptations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Film_and_video" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Film_and_video"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.1 Film and video </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Film_and_video-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Radio_and_audio" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Radio_and_audio"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.2 Radio and audio </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Radio_and_audio-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Opera" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Opera"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.3 Opera </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Opera-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Novels" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Novels"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.4 Novels </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Novels-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8 See also </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes_and_references" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes_and_references"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9 Notes and references </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Notes_and_references-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Notes and references subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Notes_and_references-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9.1 Notes </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9.2 References </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Bibliography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Bibliography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 10 Bibliography </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Bibliography-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Bibliography subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Bibliography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Editions_of_King_Lear" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Editions_of_King_Lear"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 10.1 Editions of King Lear </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Editions_of_King_Lear-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Secondary_sources" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Secondary_sources"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 10.2 Secondary sources </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Secondary_sources-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 11 External links </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Toggle the table of contents" > <label id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-label" for="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only " aria-hidden="true" > Toggle the table of contents </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-unpinned-container" class="vector-unpinned-container"> </div> </div> </div> </nav> <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading">King Lear</h1> <div id="p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown mw-portlet mw-portlet-lang" > <input type="checkbox" id="p-lang-btn-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox mw-interlanguage-selector" aria-label="Go to an article in another language. Available in 70 languages" > <label id="p-lang-btn-label" for="p-lang-btn-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--action-progressive mw-portlet-lang-heading-70" aria-hidden="true" > 70 languages </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-af mw-list-item"><a href="https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Lear" title="King Lear – Afrikaans" lang="af" hreflang="af" data-title="King Lear" data-language-autonym="Afrikaans" data-language-local-name="Afrikaans" class="interlanguage-link-target">Afrikaans</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%84%D9%83_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B1" title="الملك لير – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="الملك لير" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">العربية</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_rei_Lear" title="El rei Lear – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="El rei Lear" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Asturianu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%9B%D1%96%D1%80" title="Кароль Лір – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Кароль Лір" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB_%D0%9B%D0%B8%D1%80" title="Крал Лир – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Крал Лир" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bo mw-list-item"><a href="https://bo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BC%84%E0%BC%85%E0%BC%8D%E0%BC%8D_%E0%BD%A2%E0%BE%92%E0%BE%B1%E0%BD%A3%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%94%E0%BD%BC%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%A3%E0%BD%BA%E0%BD%A2%E0%BC%8D" title="༄༅།། རྒྱལ་པོ་ལེར། – Tibetan" lang="bo" hreflang="bo" data-title="༄༅།། རྒྱལ་པོ་ལེར།" data-language-autonym="བོད་ཡིག" data-language-local-name="Tibetan" class="interlanguage-link-target">བོད་ཡིག</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kralj_Lear" title="Kralj Lear – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Kralj Lear" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bosanski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Rei_Lear" title="El Rei Lear – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="El Rei Lear" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kr%C3%A1l_Lear" title="Král Lear – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Král Lear" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Lear" title="King Lear – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="King Lear" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Cymraeg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kong_Lear_(tragedie)" title="Kong Lear (tragedie) – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Kong Lear (tragedie)" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6nig_Lear" title="König Lear – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="König Lear" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuningas_Lear" title="Kuningas Lear – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Kuningas Lear" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%92%CE%B1%CF%83%CE%B9%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%AC%CF%82_%CE%9B%CE%B7%CF%81" title="Βασιλιάς Ληρ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Βασιλιάς Ληρ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_rey_Lear" title="El rey Lear – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="El rey Lear" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re%C4%9Do_Lear" title="Reĝo Lear – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Reĝo Lear" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lear_erregea" title="Lear erregea – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Lear erregea" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%87_%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B1" title="شاه لیر – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="شاه لیر" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Roi_Lear" title="Le Roi Lear – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Le Roi Lear" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kening_Lear" title="Kening Lear – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Kening Lear" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Frysk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_R%C3%AD_Lir_(Dr%C3%A1ma)" title="An Rí Lir (Dráma) – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="An Rí Lir (Dráma)" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gaeilge</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_rei_Lear" title="O rei Lear – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="O rei Lear" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target">Galego</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A6%AC%EC%96%B4%EC%99%95" title="리어왕 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="리어왕" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B1%D6%80%D6%84%D5%A1_%D4%BC%D5%AB%D6%80" title="Արքա Լիր – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Արքա Լիր" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Հայերեն</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97_%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%B0_(%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%B0_%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%83%E0%A4%A4)" title="किंग लीयर (शेक्सपीयर कृत) – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="किंग लीयर (शेक्सपीयर कृत)" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target">हिन्दी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kralj_Lear" title="Kralj Lear – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Kralj Lear" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hrvatski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raja_Lear" title="Raja Lear – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Raja Lear" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re_Lear" title="Re Lear – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Re Lear" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%9C%D7%9A_%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%A8" title="המלך ליר – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="המלך ליר" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9B%E1%83%94%E1%83%A4%E1%83%94_%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98" title="მეფე ლირი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="მეფე ლირი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target">ქართული</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9Eah_Lear" title="Şah Lear – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Şah Lear" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kurdî</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Lear" title="King Lear – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="King Lear" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karalis_L%C4%ABrs" title="Karalis Līrs – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Karalis Līrs" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latviešu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karalius_Lyras" title="Karalius Lyras – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Karalius Lyras" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lietuvių</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lfn mw-list-item"><a href="https://lfn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re_Lear_(Shakespeare)" title="Re Lear (Shakespeare) – Lingua Franca Nova" lang="lfn" hreflang="lfn" data-title="Re Lear (Shakespeare)" data-language-autonym="Lingua Franca Nova" data-language-local-name="Lingua 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For the legendary figure, see <a href="/wiki/Leir_of_Britain" title="Leir of Britain">Leir of Britain</a>. For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/King_Lear_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="King Lear (disambiguation)">King Lear (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:King_Lear_by_George_Frederick_Bensell.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/King_Lear_by_George_Frederick_Bensell.jpg/220px-King_Lear_by_George_Frederick_Bensell.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="276" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/King_Lear_by_George_Frederick_Bensell.jpg/330px-King_Lear_by_George_Frederick_Bensell.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/King_Lear_by_George_Frederick_Bensell.jpg/440px-King_Lear_by_George_Frederick_Bensell.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="1002" /></a><figcaption>King Lear, <a href="/wiki/George_Frederick_Bensell" title="George Frederick Bensell">George Frederick Bensell</a></figcaption></figure> The Tragedy of King Lear, often shortened to King Lear, is a <a href="/wiki/Shakespearean_tragedy" title="Shakespearean tragedy">tragedy</a> written by <a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>. It is loosely based on the mythological <a href="/wiki/Leir_of_Britain" title="Leir of Britain">Leir of Britain</a>. King Lear, in preparation for his old age, divides his power and land between his daughters <a href="/wiki/Goneril" title="Goneril">Goneril</a> and <a href="/wiki/Regan_(King_Lear)" title="Regan (King Lear)">Regan</a>, who pay homage to gain favour, feigning love. The King's third daughter, <a href="/wiki/Cordelia_(King_Lear)" title="Cordelia (King Lear)">Cordelia</a>, is offered a third of his kingdom also, but refuses to be insincere in her praise and affection.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> She instead offers the respect of a daughter and is disowned by Lear who seeks flattery. Regan and Goneril subsequently break promises to host Lear and his entourage, so he opts to become homeless and destitute, and goes insane. The French King married to Cordelia then invades Britain to restore order and Lear's rule. In a subplot, Edmund, the illegitimate son of Gloucester, betrays his brother and father. Tragically, Lear, Cordelia and several other main characters die. The plot and subplot overlap and intertwine with political power plays, personal ambition, and assumed supernatural interventions and pagan beliefs. The first known performance of any version of Shakespeare's play was on <a href="/wiki/Saint_Stephen%27s_Day" title="Saint Stephen's Day">Saint Stephen's Day</a> in 1606. Modern editors derive their texts from three extant publications: the 1608 <a href="/wiki/Quarto" title="Quarto">quarto</a> (Q1), the 1619 quarto (Q2, unofficial and based on Q1), and the 1623 <a href="/wiki/First_Folio" title="First Folio">First Folio</a>. The quarto versions differ significantly from the folio version. The play was often revised after the <a href="/wiki/English_Restoration" class="mw-redirect" title="English Restoration">English Restoration</a> for audiences who disliked its dark and depressing tone, but since the 19th century Shakespeare's original play has been regarded as one of his supreme achievements. Both the title role and the supporting roles have been coveted by accomplished actors, and the play has been widely adapted. In his <a href="/wiki/A_Defence_of_Poetry" title="A Defence of Poetry">A Defence of Poetry</a> (1821), <a href="/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley" title="Percy Bysshe Shelley">Percy Bysshe Shelley</a> called King Lear "the most perfect specimen of the dramatic art existing in the world", and the play is regularly cited as one of the greatest works of literature ever written.<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt20081-3">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Characters">Characters</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=King_Lear&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Characters">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col div-col-rules" style="column-width: 20em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Leir_of_Britain" title="Leir of Britain">Lear</a> – King of Britain</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goneril" title="Goneril">Goneril</a> – Lear's eldest daughter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regan_(King_Lear)" title="Regan (King Lear)">Regan</a> – Lear's middle daughter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cordelia_(King_Lear)" title="Cordelia (King Lear)">Cordelia</a> – Lear's youngest daughter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespearean_fool" title="Shakespearean fool">The Fool</a> – attendant on Lear</li> <li>Duke of Albany – Goneril's husband</li> <li>Duke of Cornwall – Regan's husband</li> <li>King of France – suitor and later husband to Cordelia</li> <li>Duke of Burgundy – suitor to Cordelia</li> <li>Earl of Gloucester – loyal to Lear</li> <li>Edgar – Gloucester's first-born son</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_(King_Lear)" title="Edmund (King Lear)">Edmund</a> – Gloucester's illegitimate son</li> <li>Earl of Kent – loyal to Lear</li> <li>Oswald – Goneril's steward</li> <li>Doctor – attends on Cordelia</li> <li>Curan – Gloucester's servant</li> <li>Old Man – tenant of Gloucester</li></ul> </div> Notable casts <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="1">Character </th> <th>Broadway revival (1956) </th> <th>West End revival (1962) </th> <th>Broadway revival (1968) </th> <th>Broadway revival (2004) </th> <th>West End revival (2007) </th> <th>West End revival (2010) </th> <th>Off-Broadway revival (2011) </th> <th>Broadway revival (2019) </th></tr> <tr> <th>Lear </th> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Orson_Welles" title="Orson Welles">Orson Welles</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Paul_Scofield" title="Paul Scofield">Paul Scofield</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Lee_J._Cobb" title="Lee J. Cobb">Lee J. Cobb</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Plummer" title="Christopher Plummer">Christopher Plummer</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Ian_McKellen" title="Ian McKellen">Ian McKellen</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Derek_Jacobi" title="Derek Jacobi">Derek Jacobi</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Sam_Waterston" title="Sam Waterston">Sam Waterston</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Glenda_Jackson" title="Glenda Jackson">Glenda Jackson</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>Goneril </th> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Geraldine_Fitzgerald" title="Geraldine Fitzgerald">Geraldine Fitzgerald</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Irene_Worth" title="Irene Worth">Irene Worth</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Marilyn_Lightstone" title="Marilyn Lightstone">Marilyn Lightstone</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Domini_Blythe" title="Domini Blythe">Domini Blythe</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Frances_Barber" title="Frances Barber">Frances Barber</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Gina_McKee" title="Gina McKee">Gina McKee</a></td> <td align="center">Enid Graham</td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Marvel" title="Elizabeth Marvel">Elizabeth Marvel</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>Regan </th> <td align="center">Sylvia Short</td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Patience_Collier" title="Patience Collier">Patience Collier</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Patricia_Elliott" title="Patricia Elliott">Patricia Elliott</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Lucy_Peacock" title="Lucy Peacock">Lucy Peacock</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Monica_Dolan" title="Monica Dolan">Monica Dolan</a></td> <td align="center">Justine Mitchell</td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Kelli_O%E2%80%99Hara" class="mw-redirect" title="Kelli O’Hara">Kelli O’Hara</a></td> <td align="center">Aisling O’Sullivan </td></tr> <tr> <th>Cordelia </th> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Viveca_Lindfors" title="Viveca Lindfors">Viveca Lindfors</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Diana_Rigg" title="Diana Rigg">Diana Rigg</a></td> <td align="center">Barbette Tweed</td> <td align="center">Claire Jullien</td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Romola_Garai" title="Romola Garai">Romola Garai</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Pippa_Bennett-Warner" title="Pippa Bennett-Warner">Pippa Bennett-Warner</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Kristen_Connolly" title="Kristen Connolly">Kristen Connolly</a></td> <td align="center" rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Ruth_Wilson" title="Ruth Wilson">Ruth Wilson</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>The Fool </th> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Alvin_Epstein" title="Alvin Epstein">Alvin Epstein</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Alec_McCowen" title="Alec McCowen">Alec McCowen</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Auberjonois" title="René Auberjonois">René Auberjonois</a></td> <td align="center">Barry MacGregor</td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Sylvester_McCoy" title="Sylvester McCoy">Sylvester McCoy</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Ron_Cook" title="Ron Cook">Ron Cook</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Bill_Irwin" title="Bill Irwin">Bill Irwin</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>Duke of Albany </th> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Sorrell_Booke" title="Sorrell Booke">Sorrell Booke</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Peter_Jeffrey" title="Peter Jeffrey">Peter Jeffrey</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Cioffi" title="Charles Cioffi">Charles Cioffi</a></td> <td align="center">Guy Paul</td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Julian_Harries" title="Julian Harries">Julian Harries</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Tom_Beard" title="Tom Beard">Tom Beard</a></td> <td align="center">Richard Topol</td> <td align="center">Dion Johnstone </td></tr> <tr> <th>Duke of Cornwall </th> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Thayer_David" title="Thayer David">Thayer David</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Tony_Church" title="Tony Church">Tony Church</a></td> <td align="center">John Devlin</td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Russell" title="Stephen Russell">Stephen Russell</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Guy_Williams_(actor)" title="Guy Williams (actor)">Guy Williams</a></td> <td align="center">Gideon Turner</td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Frank_Wood_(actor)" title="Frank Wood (actor)">Frank Wood</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Russell_Harvard" title="Russell Harvard">Russell Harvard</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>King of France </th> <td align="center">Robert Blackburn</td> <td align="center">Barry MacGregor</td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Phalen" title="Robert Phalen">Robert Phalen</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Randolph" title="Christopher Randolph">Christopher Randolph</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Ben_Addis" title="Ben Addis">Ben Addis</a></td> <td align="center">Ashley Zhangazha</td> <td align="center">Michael Izquierdo</td> <td align="center">Ian Lassiter </td></tr> <tr> <th>Duke of Burgundy </th> <td align="center">Walter Matthews</td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Tony_Steedman" title="Tony Steedman">Tony Steedman</a></td> <td align="center">Bill Moor</td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Eric_Sheffer_Stevens" title="Eric Sheffer Stevens">Eric Sheffer Stevens</a></td> <td align="center">Peter Hinton</td> <td align="center">Stefano Braaschi</td> <td align="center">Che Ayende</td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Justin_Cunningham" class="mw-redirect" title="Justin Cunningham">Justin Cunningham</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>Earl of Gloucester </th> <td align="center">Lester Rawlins</td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Alan_Webb_(actor)" title="Alan Webb (actor)">Alan Webb</a></td> <td align="center">William Myers</td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/James_Blendick" title="James Blendick">James Blendick</a></td> <td align="center">William Gaunt</td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Paul_Jesson" title="Paul Jesson">Paul Jesson</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Michael_McKean" title="Michael McKean">Michael McKean</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Jayne_Houdyshell" title="Jayne Houdyshell">Jayne Houdyshell</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>Edgar </th> <td align="center">Robert Fletcher</td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Brian_Murray_(actor)" title="Brian Murray (actor)">Brian Murray</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Phalen" title="Robert Phalen">Robert Phalen</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Brent_Carver" title="Brent Carver">Brent Carver</a></td> <td align="center">Ben Meyjes</td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Gwilym_Lee" title="Gwilym Lee">Gwilym Lee</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Arian_Moayed" title="Arian Moayed">Arian Moayed</a></td> <td align="center">Sean Carvajal </td></tr> <tr> <th>Edmund </th> <td align="center">John Colicos</td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/James_Booth" title="James Booth">James Booth</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Stacy_Keach" title="Stacy Keach">Stacy Keach</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Geraint_Wyn_Davies" title="Geraint Wyn Davies">Geraint Wyn Davies</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Philip_Winchester" title="Philip Winchester">Philip Winchester</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Alec_Newman" title="Alec Newman">Alec Newman</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Seth_Gilliam" title="Seth Gilliam">Seth Gilliam</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Pedro_Pascal" title="Pedro Pascal">Pedro Pascal</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>Earl of Kent </th> <td align="center">Roy Dean</td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Brewster_Mason" title="Brewster Mason">Brewster Mason</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Philip_Bosco" title="Philip Bosco">Philip Bosco</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Benedict_Campbell" title="Benedict Campbell">Benedict Campbell</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Hyde" title="Jonathan Hyde">Jonathan Hyde</a></td> <td align="center">Michael Hadley</td> <td align="center" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/John_Douglas_Thompson" title="John Douglas Thompson">John Douglas Thompson</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>Oswald </th> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Francis_Carpenter_(actor)" title="Francis Carpenter (actor)">Francis Carpenter</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Clive_Swift" title="Clive Swift">Clive Swift</a></td> <td align="center">Tom Sawyer</td> <td align="center">Andy Prosky</td> <td align="center">John Hefferman</td> <td align="center">Amit Shah</td> <td align="center">Michael Crane</td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Maher_(actor)" title="Matthew Maher (actor)">Matthew Maher</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>Doctor </th> <td align="center">Walter Matthews</td> <td align="center">Gareth Morgan</td> <td align="center">William Myers</td> <td align="center">William Cain</td> <td align="center">Russell Byrne</td> <td align="center">N/A</td> <td align="center">Craig Bockhorn</td> <td align="center">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th>Curan </th> <td align="center">Tom Clancy</td> <td align="center">Philip Brack</td> <td align="center">Jerome Dempsey</td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Eric_Sheffer_Stevens" title="Eric Sheffer Stevens">Eric Sheffer Stevens</a></td> <td align="center">Seymour Matthews</td> <td align="center">N/A</td> <td align="center">Herb Foster</td> <td align="center">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th>Old Man </th> <td align="center">N/A</td> <td align="center">Michael Burrell</td> <td align="center">Don McHenry</td> <td align="center">Leo Leyden</td> <td align="center">N/A</td> <td align="center">Derek Hutchinson</td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Herb_Foster" title="Herb Foster">Herb Foster</a></td> <td align="center">Stephanie Roth </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plot">Plot</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=King_Lear&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Plot">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Act_I">Act I</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=King_Lear&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Act I">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cordelia-in-the-Court-of-King-Lear-1873-Sir-John-Gilbert.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Cordelia-in-the-Court-of-King-Lear-1873-Sir-John-Gilbert.jpg/300px-Cordelia-in-the-Court-of-King-Lear-1873-Sir-John-Gilbert.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="202" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Cordelia-in-the-Court-of-King-Lear-1873-Sir-John-Gilbert.jpg/450px-Cordelia-in-the-Court-of-King-Lear-1873-Sir-John-Gilbert.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Cordelia-in-the-Court-of-King-Lear-1873-Sir-John-Gilbert.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="404" /></a><figcaption>Cordelia in the Court of King Lear (1873) by <a href="/wiki/John_Gilbert_(painter)" title="John Gilbert (painter)">Sir John Gilbert</a></figcaption></figure> King Lear of Britain, elderly and wanting to retire from the duties of the monarchy, decides to divide his realm among his three daughters, and declares he will offer the largest share to the one who loves him most. The eldest, Goneril, speaks first, declaring her love for her father in fulsome terms. Moved by her flattery, Lear proceeds to grant to Goneril her share as soon as she has finished her declaration, before Regan and Cordelia have a chance to speak. He then awards to Regan her share as soon as she has spoken. When it is finally the turn of his youngest and favourite daughter, Cordelia, at first she refuses to say anything ("Nothing, my Lord") and then declares there is nothing to compare her love to, no words to express it properly; she says honestly but bluntly that she loves him according to her bond, no more and no less, and will reserve half of her love for her future husband. Infuriated, Lear disinherits Cordelia and divides her share between her elder sisters. The Earl of Gloucester and the Earl of Kent observe that, by dividing his realm between Goneril and Regan, Lear has awarded his realm in equal shares to the peerages of the Duke of Albany (Goneril's husband) and the Duke of Cornwall (Regan's husband). Kent objects to Lear's unfair treatment of Cordelia. Enraged by Kent's protests, Lear banishes him from the country. Lear then summons the Duke of Burgundy and the King of France, who have both proposed marriage to Cordelia. Learning that Cordelia has been disinherited, the Duke of <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Burgundy" title="Duchy of Burgundy">Burgundy</a> withdraws his suit, but the King of France is impressed by her honesty and marries her nonetheless. The King of France is shocked by Lear's decision because up until this time Lear has only praised and favoured Cordelia ("... she whom even but now was your best object, / The argument of your praise, balm of your age, ...").<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a> Meanwhile, Gloucester has introduced his illegitimate son Edmund to Kent. <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Edwin_Austin_Abbey_King_Lear,_Act_I,_Scene_I_The_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Edwin_Austin_Abbey_King_Lear%2C_Act_I%2C_Scene_I_The_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art.jpg/300px-Edwin_Austin_Abbey_King_Lear%2C_Act_I%2C_Scene_I_The_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="127" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Edwin_Austin_Abbey_King_Lear%2C_Act_I%2C_Scene_I_The_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art.jpg/450px-Edwin_Austin_Abbey_King_Lear%2C_Act_I%2C_Scene_I_The_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Edwin_Austin_Abbey_King_Lear%2C_Act_I%2C_Scene_I_The_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art.jpg/600px-Edwin_Austin_Abbey_King_Lear%2C_Act_I%2C_Scene_I_The_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6498" data-file-height="2748" /></a><figcaption>King Lear: Cordelia's Farewell by <a href="/wiki/Edwin_Austin_Abbey" title="Edwin Austin Abbey">Edwin Austin Abbey</a></figcaption></figure> Lear announces he will live alternately with Goneril and Regan, and their husbands. He reserves to himself a retinue of 100 knights, to be supported by his daughters. After Cordelia bids farewell to them and leaves with the King of France, Goneril and Regan speak privately, revealing that their declarations of love were false and that they view Lear as a foolish old man. Gloucester's son Edmund resents his illegitimate status and plots to dispose of his legitimate older half-brother, Edgar. He tricks his father with a forged letter, making him think that Edgar plans to usurp the estate. The Earl of Kent returns from exile in disguise (calling himself Caius), and Lear hires him as a servant. At Albany and Goneril's house, Lear and Kent quarrel with Oswald, Goneril's steward. Lear discovers that now that Goneril has power, she no longer respects him. She orders him to reduce the number of his disorderly retinue. Enraged, Lear departs for Regan's home. The Fool reproaches Lear with his foolishness in giving everything to Regan and Goneril and predicts that Regan will treat him no better. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Act_II">Act II</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=King_Lear&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Act II">edit</a>]</div> Edmund learns from Curan, a courtier, that there is likely to be war between Albany and Cornwall and that Regan and Cornwall are to arrive at Gloucester's house that evening. Taking advantage of the arrival of the duke and Regan, Edmund fakes an attack by Edgar, and Gloucester is completely taken in. He disinherits Edgar and proclaims him an outlaw. Bearing Lear's message to Regan, Kent meets Oswald again at Gloucester's home, quarrels with him again and is put in the stocks by Regan and her husband Cornwall. When Lear arrives, he objects to the mistreatment of his messenger, but Regan is as dismissive of her father as Goneril was. Lear is enraged but impotent. Goneril arrives and supports Regan's argument against him. Lear yields completely to his rage. He rushes out into a storm to rant against his ungrateful daughters, accompanied by the mocking Fool. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Act_III">Act III</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=King_Lear&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Act III">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Benjamin_West_King_Lear_Act_III_scene_4.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Benjamin_West_King_Lear_Act_III_scene_4.jpg/220px-Benjamin_West_King_Lear_Act_III_scene_4.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="166" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Benjamin_West_King_Lear_Act_III_scene_4.jpg/330px-Benjamin_West_King_Lear_Act_III_scene_4.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Benjamin_West_King_Lear_Act_III_scene_4.jpg/440px-Benjamin_West_King_Lear_Act_III_scene_4.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1205" /></a><figcaption>King Lear, <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_West" title="Benjamin West">Benjamin West</a> (1788)</figcaption></figure> Kent later follows to protect Lear. Gloucester protests against Lear's mistreatment. With Lear's retinue of a hundred knights dissolved, the only companions he has left are his Fool and Kent. Wandering on the <a href="/wiki/Heath" title="Heath">heath</a> after the storm, Edgar, in the guise of a madman named <a href="/wiki/Tom_o%27_Bedlam" title="Tom o' Bedlam">Tom o' Bedlam</a>, meets Lear. Edgar babbles madly while Lear denounces his daughters. Kent leads them all to shelter. Kent tells a gentleman that a French army has landed in Britain, aiming to reinstate Lear to the throne. He then sends the gentleman to give Cordelia a message while he looks for King Lear on the heath. Meanwhile, Edmund learns that Gloucester is aware of France's impending invasion and betrays his father to Cornwall, Regan, and Goneril. Once Edmund leaves with Goneril to warn Albany about the invasion, Gloucester is arrested, and Regan and Cornwall <a href="/wiki/Eye-gouging" title="Eye-gouging">gouge out Gloucester's eyes</a>. As they do this, a servant is overcome with horror and comes to Gloucester's defence, mortally wounding Cornwall. Regan kills the servant and tells Gloucester that Edmund betrayed him. Then, as she did to her father in Act II, she sends Gloucester out to wander the heath. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Act_IV">Act IV</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=King_Lear&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Act IV">edit</a>]</div> Edgar, in his madman's disguise, meets his blinded father on the heath. Gloucester, sightless and failing to recognise Edgar's voice, begs him to lead him to a cliff at Dover so that he may jump to his death. Goneril discovers that she finds Edmund more attractive than her honest husband Albany, whom she regards as cowardly. Albany has developed a conscience—he is disgusted by the sisters' treatment of Lear and Gloucester—and denounces his wife. Goneril sends Edmund back to Regan. After receiving news of Cornwall's death, she fears her newly widowed sister may steal Edmund and sends him a letter through Oswald. Now alone with Lear, Kent leads him to the French army, which is commanded by Cordelia. But Lear is half-mad and terribly embarrassed by his earlier follies. At Regan's instigation, Albany joins his forces with hers against the French. Goneril's suspicions about Regan's motives are confirmed and returned, as Regan rightly guesses the meaning of her letter and declares to Oswald that she is a more appropriate match for Edmund. Edgar pretends to lead Gloucester to a cliff, then changes his voice and tells Gloucester he has miraculously survived a great fall. Lear appears, by now, completely mad. He rants that the whole world is corrupt and runs off. Oswald appears, still looking for Edmund. On Regan's orders, he tries to kill Gloucester but is killed by Edgar. In Oswald's pocket, Edgar finds Goneril's letter, in which she encourages Edmund to kill her husband and take her as his wife. Kent and Cordelia take charge of Lear, whose madness quickly passes. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Act_V">Act V</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=King_Lear&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Act V">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lear_and_Cordelia_(1849-54).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Lear_and_Cordelia_%281849-54%29.jpg/300px-Lear_and_Cordelia_%281849-54%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="217" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Lear_and_Cordelia_%281849-54%29.jpg/450px-Lear_and_Cordelia_%281849-54%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Lear_and_Cordelia_%281849-54%29.jpg/600px-Lear_and_Cordelia_%281849-54%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1536" data-file-height="1109" /></a><figcaption>Lear and Cordelia by <a href="/wiki/Ford_Madox_Brown" title="Ford Madox Brown">Ford Madox Brown</a></figcaption></figure> Regan, Goneril, Albany, and Edmund meet with their forces. Albany insists that they fight the French invaders but not harm Lear or Cordelia. The two sisters lust for Edmund, who has made promises to both. He considers the dilemma and plots the deaths of Albany, Lear, and Cordelia. Edgar gives Goneril's letter to Albany. The armies meet in battle, the Britons defeat the French, and Lear and Cordelia are captured. Edmund sends Lear and Cordelia off with secret joint orders from him (representing Regan and her forces) and Goneril (representing the forces of her estranged husband, Albany) for the execution of Cordelia. The victorious British leaders meet, and the recently widowed Regan now declares she will marry Edmund. But Albany exposes the intrigues of Edmund and Goneril and proclaims Edmund a traitor. Regan falls ill, having been poisoned by Goneril, and is escorted offstage, where she dies. Edmund defies Albany, who calls for a <a href="/wiki/Trial_by_combat" title="Trial by combat">trial by combat</a>. Edgar appears masked and in armour and challenges Edmund to a duel. No one knows who he is. Edgar wounds Edmund fatally, though Edmund does not die immediately. Albany confronts Goneril with the letter which was intended to be his death warrant; she flees in shame and rage. Edgar reveals himself and reports that Gloucester died offstage from the shock and joy of learning that Edgar is alive, after Edgar revealed himself to his father. Offstage, Goneril, her plans thwarted, commits suicide. The dying Edmund decides, though he admits it is against his own character, to try to save Lear and Cordelia, but his confession comes too late. Soon after, Albany sends men to countermand Edmund's orders. Lear enters bearing Cordelia's corpse in his arms, having survived by killing the executioner. Kent appears and Lear now recognises him. Albany urges Lear to resume his throne, but as with Gloucester, the trials Lear has been through have finally overwhelmed him, and he dies. Albany then asks Kent and Edgar to take charge of the throne. Kent declines, explaining that his master is calling him on a journey and he must follow. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=King_Lear&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Sources">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1577_printing_of_Holinshed%27s_Chronicles.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/1577_printing_of_Holinshed%27s_Chronicles.jpg/220px-1577_printing_of_Holinshed%27s_Chronicles.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="344" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/1577_printing_of_Holinshed%27s_Chronicles.jpg/330px-1577_printing_of_Holinshed%27s_Chronicles.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/1577_printing_of_Holinshed%27s_Chronicles.jpg/440px-1577_printing_of_Holinshed%27s_Chronicles.jpg 2x" data-file-width="982" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>The first edition of <a href="/wiki/Raphael_Holinshed" title="Raphael Holinshed">Raphael Holinshed</a>'s Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande, printed in 1577</figcaption></figure> Shakespeare's play is based on various accounts of the semi-legendary <a href="/wiki/Britons_(Celtic_people)" class="mw-redirect" title="Britons (Celtic people)">Brythonic</a> figure <a href="/wiki/Leir_of_Britain" title="Leir of Britain">Leir of Britain</a>, whose name has been linked by some scholars[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch">who?</a>] to the Brythonic god <a href="/wiki/Lir" title="Lir">Lir</a>/<a href="/wiki/Ll%C5%B7r" title="Llŷr">Llŷr</a>, though in actuality the names are not etymologically related.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJackson1953459-6">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEkwall1928xlii-7">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStevenson1918-8">[8]</a> Shakespeare's most important source is probably the second edition of <a href="/wiki/Holinshed%27s_Chronicles" title="Holinshed's Chronicles">The Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande</a> by <a href="/wiki/Raphael_Holinshed" title="Raphael Holinshed">Raphael Holinshed</a>, published in 1587. Holinshed himself found the story in the earlier <a href="/wiki/Historia_Regum_Britanniae" title="Historia Regum Britanniae">Historia Regum Britanniae</a> by <a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_of_Monmouth" title="Geoffrey of Monmouth">Geoffrey of Monmouth</a>, which was written in the 12th century. <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Spenser" title="Edmund Spenser">Edmund Spenser</a>'s <a href="/wiki/The_Faerie_Queene" title="The Faerie Queene">The Faerie Queene</a>, published 1590, also contains a character named Cordelia, who also dies from hanging, as in King Lear.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFoakes199794–96-9">[9]</a> Other possible sources are the anonymous play <a href="/wiki/King_Leir" title="King Leir">King Leir</a> (published in 1605); <a href="/wiki/The_Mirror_for_Magistrates" title="The Mirror for Magistrates">The Mirror for Magistrates</a> (1574), by John Higgins; <a href="/wiki/The_Malcontent" title="The Malcontent">The Malcontent</a> (1604), by <a href="/wiki/John_Marston_(playwright)" title="John Marston (playwright)">John Marston</a>; <a href="/wiki/The_London_Prodigal" title="The London Prodigal">The London Prodigal</a> (1605); <a href="/wiki/Montaigne" class="mw-redirect" title="Montaigne">Montaigne</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Essays_(Montaigne)" title="Essays (Montaigne)">Essays</a>, which were translated into English by <a href="/wiki/John_Florio" title="John Florio">John Florio</a> in 1603; A Description of Elizabethan England (1577), by <a href="/wiki/William_Harrison_(priest)" title="William Harrison (priest)">William Harrison</a>; Remains Concerning Britain (1606), by <a href="/wiki/William_Camden" title="William Camden">William Camden</a>; <a href="/wiki/Albion%27s_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Albion's England">Albion's England</a> (1589), by <a href="/wiki/William_Warner_(poet)" title="William Warner (poet)">William Warner</a>; and A Declaration of egregious Popish Impostures (1603), by <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Harsnett" title="Samuel Harsnett">Samuel Harsnett</a>, which provided some of the language used by Edgar while he feigns madness.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHadfield2007208-10">[10]</a> King Lear is also a literary variant of a common <a href="/wiki/Fable" title="Fable">folk tale</a>, "<a href="/wiki/Water_and_Salt" title="Water and Salt">Love Like Salt</a>", <a href="/wiki/Aarne%E2%80%93Thompson" class="mw-redirect" title="Aarne–Thompson">Aarne–Thompson</a> type 923, in which a father rejects his youngest daughter for a statement of her love that does not please him.<a href="#cite_note-11">[a]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMitakidouManna2002100-12">[11]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAshliman2013-13">[12]</a> The source of the subplot involving Gloucester, Edgar, and Edmund is a tale in <a href="/wiki/Philip_Sidney" title="Philip Sidney">Philip Sidney</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Countess_of_Pembroke%27s_Arcadia" class="mw-redirect" title="Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia">Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia</a> (1580–90), with a blind <a href="/wiki/Paphlagonia" title="Paphlagonia">Paphlagonian</a> king and his two sons, Leonatus and Plexitrus.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcNeir1968-14">[13]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Changes_from_source_material">Changes from source material</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=King_Lear&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Changes from source material">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cordelia,_King_Lear,_Alexander_Johnston_(artist).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Cordelia%2C_King_Lear%2C_Alexander_Johnston_%28artist%29.jpg/220px-Cordelia%2C_King_Lear%2C_Alexander_Johnston_%28artist%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Cordelia%2C_King_Lear%2C_Alexander_Johnston_%28artist%29.jpg/330px-Cordelia%2C_King_Lear%2C_Alexander_Johnston_%28artist%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Cordelia%2C_King_Lear%2C_Alexander_Johnston_%28artist%29.jpg/440px-Cordelia%2C_King_Lear%2C_Alexander_Johnston_%28artist%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1747" data-file-height="2620" /></a><figcaption>Cordelia, <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Johnston_(artist)" title="Alexander Johnston (artist)">Alexander Johnston</a> (c.1894)</figcaption></figure> Besides the subplot involving the Earl of Gloucester and his sons, the principal innovation Shakespeare made to this story was the death of Cordelia and Lear at the end; in the account by Geoffrey of Monmouth, Cordelia restores Lear to the throne, and succeeds him as ruler after his death. During the 17th century, Shakespeare's tragic ending was much criticised and alternative versions were written by <a href="/wiki/Nahum_Tate" title="Nahum Tate">Nahum Tate</a>, in which the leading characters survived and Edgar and Cordelia were married (despite the fact that Cordelia was previously betrothed to the King of France). As <a href="/wiki/Harold_Bloom" title="Harold Bloom">Harold Bloom</a> states: "Tate's version held the stage for almost 150 years, until <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Kean" title="Edmund Kean">Edmund Kean</a> reinstated the play's tragic ending in 1823."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBloom200853-15">[14]</a> Holinshed states that the story is set when <a href="/wiki/Jehoash_of_Judah" title="Jehoash of Judah">Joash</a> was <a href="/wiki/King_of_Judah" class="mw-redirect" title="King of Judah">King of Judah</a> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 800 BC), while Shakespeare avoids dating the setting, only suggesting that it is sometime in the pre-Christian era (with numerous anachronisms, such as Anglo-Saxon names and titles like Duke and Earl). The characters of Earl "Caius" of Kent and The Fool were created wholly by Shakespeare in order to engage in character-driven conversations with Lear. Oswald the steward, the confidant of Goneril, was created as a similar expository device. Shakespeare's Lear and other characters make oaths to <a href="/wiki/Jupiter_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jupiter (mythology)">Jupiter</a>, <a href="/wiki/Juno_(mythology)" title="Juno (mythology)">Juno</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Apollo" title="Apollo">Apollo</a>. While the presence of Roman religion in Britain is technically an anachronism, nothing was known about any religion that existed in Britain at the time of Lear's alleged life. Holinshed identifies the personal names of the Duke of Albany (Maglanus), the Duke of Cornwall (Henninus), and the Gallic/French leader (Aganippus). Shakespeare refers to these characters by their titles only, and also changes the nature of Albany from a villain to a hero, by reassigning Albany's wicked deeds to Cornwall. Maglanus and Henninus are killed in the final battle, but are survived by their sons Margan and Cunedag. In Shakespeare's version, Cornwall is killed by a servant who objects to the torture of the Earl of Gloucester, while Albany is one of the few surviving main characters. <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Asimov" title="Isaac Asimov">Isaac Asimov</a> surmised that this alteration was due to the title <a href="/wiki/Duke_of_Albany" title="Duke of Albany">Duke of Albany</a> being held in 1606 by <a href="/wiki/Charles_I_of_England" title="Charles I of England">Prince Charles</a>, the younger son of Shakespeare's benefactor <a href="/wiki/James_I_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="James I of England">King James</a>.<a href="#cite_note-16">[15]</a> However, this explanation is faulty, because James' older son, <a href="/wiki/Henry_Frederick,_Prince_of_Wales" title="Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales">Prince Henry</a>, held the title <a href="/wiki/Duke_of_Cornwall" title="Duke of Cornwall">Duke of Cornwall</a> at the same time. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Date_and_text">Date and text</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=King_Lear&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Date and text">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Houghton_STC_22292_-_M._William_Shak-speare,_1608.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Houghton_STC_22292_-_M._William_Shak-speare%2C_1608.jpg/220px-Houghton_STC_22292_-_M._William_Shak-speare%2C_1608.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="305" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Houghton_STC_22292_-_M._William_Shak-speare%2C_1608.jpg/330px-Houghton_STC_22292_-_M._William_Shak-speare%2C_1608.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Houghton_STC_22292_-_M._William_Shak-speare%2C_1608.jpg/440px-Houghton_STC_22292_-_M._William_Shak-speare%2C_1608.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1085" data-file-height="1504" /></a><figcaption>Title page of the <a href="/wiki/First_quarto" class="mw-redirect" title="First quarto">first quarto</a> edition, published in 1608</figcaption></figure> There is no direct evidence to indicate when King Lear was written or first performed. It is thought to have been composed sometime between 1603 and 1606. A <a href="/wiki/Stationers%27_Register" title="Stationers' Register">Stationers' Register</a> entry notes a performance before James I on 26 December 1606. The 1603 date originates from words in Edgar's speeches which may derive from <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Harsnett" title="Samuel Harsnett">Samuel Harsnett</a>'s Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures (1603).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKermode19741249-17">[16]</a> A significant issue in the dating of the play is the relationship of King Lear to the play titled The True Chronicle History of the Life and Death of King Leir and his Three Daughters, which was published for the first time after its entry in the Stationers' Register of 8 May 1605. This play had a significant effect on Shakespeare, and his close study of it suggests that he was using a printed copy, which suggests a composition date of 1605–06.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFoakes199789–90-18">[17]</a> Conversely, Frank Kermode, in the Riverside Shakespeare, considers the publication of Leir to have been a response to performances of Shakespeare's already-written play; noting a sonnet by <a href="/wiki/William_Strachey" title="William Strachey">William Strachey</a> that may have verbal resemblances with Lear, Kermode concludes that "1604–05 seems the best compromise".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKermode19741250-19">[18]</a> A line in the play that regards "These late eclipses in the sun and moon"<a href="#cite_note-20">[19]</a> appears to refer to a phenomenon of two eclipses that occurred over London within a few days of each other—the lunar eclipse of 27 September 1605 and the solar eclipse of 12 October 1605. This remarkable pair of events stirred up much discussion among astrologers. Edmund's line "A prediction I read this other day..."<a href="#cite_note-21">[20]</a> apparently refers to the published prognostications of the astrologers, which followed after the eclipses. This suggests that those lines in Act I were written sometime after both the eclipses and the published comments.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShaheen1999606-22">[21]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Second_Folio_Title_Page_of_King_Lear.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Second_Folio_Title_Page_of_King_Lear.jpg/220px-Second_Folio_Title_Page_of_King_Lear.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="349" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Second_Folio_Title_Page_of_King_Lear.jpg/330px-Second_Folio_Title_Page_of_King_Lear.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Second_Folio_Title_Page_of_King_Lear.jpg/440px-Second_Folio_Title_Page_of_King_Lear.jpg 2x" data-file-width="967" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>The first page of King Lear, printed in the Second Folio of 1632</figcaption></figure>The modern text of King Lear derives from three sources: two quartos, one published in 1608 (Q1) and the other in 1619 (Q2),<a href="#cite_note-23">[b]</a> and the version in the First Folio of 1623 (F1). Q1 has "many errors and muddles".<a href="#cite_note-:0-24">[22]</a> Q2 was based on Q1. It introduced corrections and new errors.<a href="#cite_note-:0-24">[22]</a> Q2 also informed the Folio text.<a href="#cite_note-25">[23]</a> Quarto and Folio texts differ significantly. Q1 contains 285 lines not in F1; F1 contains around 100 lines not in Q1. Also, at least a thousand individual words are changed between the two texts, each text has different styles of punctuation, and about half the verse lines in the F1 are either printed as prose or differently divided in the Q1. Early editors, beginning with <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a>, conflated the two texts, creating the modern version that has been commonly used since. The conflated version originated with the assumptions that the differences in the versions do not indicate any re-writing by the author; that Shakespeare wrote only one original manuscript, which is now lost; and that the Quarto and Folio versions contain various distortions of that lost original. In 2021, Duncan Salkeld endorsed this view, suggesting that Q1 was typeset by a reader dictating to the compositor, leading to many slips caused by mishearing.<a href="#cite_note-26">[24]</a> Other editors, such as Nuttall and Bloom, have suggested Shakespeare himself maybe was involved in reworking passages in the play to accommodate performances and other textual requirements of the play.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBloom2008xii-27">[25]</a> As early as 1931, <a href="/wiki/Madeleine_Doran" title="Madeleine Doran">Madeleine Doran</a> suggested that the two texts had independent histories, and that these differences between them were critically interesting. This argument, however, was not widely discussed until the late 1970s, when it was revived, principally by Michael Warren and <a href="/wiki/Gary_Taylor_(scholar)" title="Gary Taylor (scholar)">Gary Taylor</a>, who discuss a variety of theories including Doran's idea that the Quarto may have been printed from Shakespeare's <a href="/wiki/Foul_papers" title="Foul papers">foul papers</a>, and that the Folio may have been printed from a promptbook prepared for a production.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaylorWarren1983429-28">[26]</a> The New Cambridge Shakespeare has published separate editions of Q and F; the most recent Pelican Shakespeare edition contains both the 1608 Quarto and the 1623 Folio text as well as a conflated version; the New Arden edition edited by <a href="/wiki/R._A._Foakes" title="R. A. Foakes">R. A. Foakes</a> offers a conflated text that indicates those passages that are found only in Q or F. Both Anthony Nuttall of Oxford University and Harold Bloom of Yale University have endorsed the view of Shakespeare having revised the tragedy at least once during his lifetime.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBloom2008xii-27">[25]</a> As Bloom indicates: "At the close of Shakespeare's revised King Lear, a reluctant Edgar becomes King of Britain, accepting his destiny but in the accents of despair. Nuttall speculates that Edgar, like Shakespeare himself, usurps the power of manipulating the audience by deceiving poor Gloucester."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBloom2008xii-27">[25]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Interpretations_and_analysis">Interpretations and analysis</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=King_Lear&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Interpretations and analysis">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote:last-child>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" “ ";vertical-align:-45%;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:after{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" ” ";line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .left-aligned{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .right-aligned{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .center-aligned{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quote-title,.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quotebox-quote{display:block}.mw-parser-output .quotebox cite{display:block;font-style:normal}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .quotebox{width:100%!important;margin:0 0 .8em!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="quotebox pullquote floatleft" style="width:20%; ; font-size: 90%; color: #202122;background-color: #f7e2c5;;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> What we know of Shakespeare's wide reading and powers of assimilation seems to show that he made use of all kinds of material, absorbing contradictory viewpoints, positive and negative, religious and secular, as if to ensure that King Lear would offer no single controlling perspective, but be open to, indeed demand, multiple interpretations. </blockquote> <cite class="left-aligned" style="">R. A. Foakes<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFoakes1997107-29">[27]</a></cite> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Historicist_interpretations">Historicist interpretations</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=King_Lear&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Historicist interpretations">edit</a>]</div> John F. Danby, in his Shakespeare's Doctrine of Nature – A Study of King Lear (1949), argues that Lear dramatizes, among other things, the current meanings of "Nature". The words "nature", "natural", and "unnatural" occur over forty times in the play, reflecting a debate in Shakespeare's time about what nature really was like; this debate pervades the play and finds symbolic expression in Lear's changing attitude to Thunder. There are two strongly contrasting views of human nature in the play: that of the Lear party (Lear, Gloucester, Albany, Kent), exemplifying the philosophy of <a href="/wiki/Francis_Bacon" title="Francis Bacon">Bacon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Richard_Hooker" title="Richard Hooker">Hooker</a>, and that of the Edmund party (Edmund, Cornwall, Goneril, Regan), akin to the views later formulated by <a href="/wiki/Hobbes" class="mw-redirect" title="Hobbes">Hobbes</a>, though the latter had not yet begun his philosophy career when Lear was first performed. Along with the two views of Nature, the play contains two views of Reason, brought out in Gloucester and Edmund's speeches on astrology (1.2). The rationality of the Edmund party is one with which a modern audience more readily identifies. But the Edmund party carries bold rationalism to such extremes that it becomes madness: a madness-in-reason, the ironic counterpart of Lear's "reason in madness" (IV.6.190) and the Fool's wisdom-in-folly. This betrayal of reason lies behind the play's later emphasis on feeling.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] The two Natures and the two Reasons imply two societies. Edmund is the New Man, a member of an age of competition, suspicion, glory, in contrast with the older society which has come down from the Middle Ages, with its belief in co-operation, reasonable decency, and respect for the whole as greater than the part. King Lear is thus an allegory. The older society, that of the medieval vision, with its doting king, falls into error, and is threatened by the new <a href="/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli#Beliefs" title="Niccolò Machiavelli">Machiavellianism</a>; it is regenerated and saved by a vision of a new order, embodied in the king's rejected daughter. Cordelia, in the allegorical scheme, is threefold: a person; an ethical principle (love); and a community. Nevertheless, Shakespeare's understanding of the New Man is so extensive as to amount almost to sympathy. Edmund is the last great expression in Shakespeare of that side of Renaissance individualism—the energy, the emancipation, the courage—which has made a positive contribution to the heritage of the West. "He embodies something vital which a final synthesis must reaffirm. But he makes an absolute claim which Shakespeare will not support. It is right for man to feel, as Edmund does, that society exists for man, not man for society. It is not right to assert the kind of man Edmund would erect to this supremacy."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDanby194950-30">[28]</a> The play offers an alternative to the feudal-Machiavellian polarity, an alternative foreshadowed in France's speech (I.1.245–256), in Lear and Gloucester's prayers (III.4. 28–36; IV.1.61–66), and in the figure of Cordelia. Until the decent society is achieved, we are meant to take as role-model (though qualified by Shakespearean ironies) Edgar, "the machiavel of goodness",<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDanby1949151-31">[29]</a> endurance, courage and "ripeness".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDanby194950-30">[28]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Three_daughters_of_King_Lear_by_Gustav_Pope.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Three_daughters_of_King_Lear_by_Gustav_Pope.JPG/220px-Three_daughters_of_King_Lear_by_Gustav_Pope.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Three_daughters_of_King_Lear_by_Gustav_Pope.JPG/330px-Three_daughters_of_King_Lear_by_Gustav_Pope.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Three_daughters_of_King_Lear_by_Gustav_Pope.JPG/440px-Three_daughters_of_King_Lear_by_Gustav_Pope.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4320" data-file-height="3240" /></a><figcaption>Three daughters of King Lear by <a href="/wiki/Gustav_Pope" title="Gustav Pope">Gustav Pope</a></figcaption></figure> The play also contains references to disputes between King James I and Parliament. In the 1604 elections to the House of Commons, <a href="/wiki/John_Fortescue_of_Salden" title="John Fortescue of Salden">Sir John Fortescue</a>, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, was defeated by a member of the Buckinghamshire gentry, <a href="/wiki/Francis_Goodwin_(MP)" title="Francis Goodwin (MP)">Sir Francis Goodwin</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHadfield2004103-32">[30]</a> Displeased with the result, James declared the result of the <a href="/wiki/Buckingham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Buckingham (UK Parliament constituency)">Buckinghhamshire</a> election invalid, and swore in Fortescue as the MP for Buckinghamshire while the House of Commons insisted on swearing in Goodwin, leading to a clash between King and Parliament over who had the right to decide who sat in the House of Commons.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHadfield2004103-32">[30]</a> The MP <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Wentworth_(Recorder_of_Oxford)" title="Thomas Wentworth (Recorder of Oxford)">Thomas Wentworth</a>, the son of another MP <a href="/wiki/Peter_Wentworth" title="Peter Wentworth">Peter Wentworth</a>—often imprisoned under Elizabeth for raising the question of the succession in the Commons—was most forceful in protesting James's attempts to reduce the powers of the House of Commons, saying the King could not just declare the results of an election invalid if he disliked who had won the seat as he was insisting that he could.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHadfield2004105-33">[31]</a> The character of Kent resembles Peter Wentworth in the way which is tactless and blunt in advising Lear, but his point is valid that Lear should be more careful with his friends and advisers.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHadfield2004105-33">[31]</a> Just as the House of Commons had argued to James that their loyalty was to the constitution of England, not to the King personally, Kent insists his loyalty is institutional, not personal, as he is loyal to the realm of which the king is head, not to Lear himself, and he tells Lear to behave better for the good of the realm.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHadfield2004105-33">[31]</a> By contrast, Lear makes an argument similar to James that as king, he holds absolute power and could disregard the views of his subjects if they displease him whenever he liked.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHadfield2004105-33">[31]</a> In the play, the characters like the Fool, Kent and Cordelia, whose loyalties are institutional, seeing their first loyalty to the realm, are portrayed more favorably than those like Regan and Goneril, who insist they are only loyal to the king, seeing their loyalties as personal.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHadfield2004105-33">[31]</a> Likewise, James was notorious for his riotous, debauched lifestyle and his preference for sycophantic courtiers who were forever singing his praises out of the hope for advancement, aspects of his court that closely resemble the court of King Lear, who starts out in the play with a riotous, debauched court of sycophantic courtiers.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHadfield2004105–106-34">[32]</a> Kent criticises Oswald as a man unworthy of office who has only been promoted because of his sycophancy, telling Lear that he should be loyal to those who are willing to tell him the truth, a statement that many in England wished that James would heed.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHadfield2004105–106-34">[32]</a> Furthermore, James VI of Scotland inherited the throne of England upon the death of Elizabeth I in 1603, thereby <a href="/wiki/Union_of_the_crowns" class="mw-redirect" title="Union of the crowns">uniting the kingdoms of the island of Britain</a> into one, and a major issue of his reign was the attempt to forge a common British identity.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHadfield200498–99-35">[33]</a> James had given his sons Henry and Charles the titles of Duke of Cornwall and Duke of Albany, the same titles borne by the men married to Regan and Goneril.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHadfield200499-36">[34]</a> The play begins with Lear ruling all of Britain and ends with him destroying his realm; the critic Andrew Hadfield argued that the division of Britain by Lear was an inversion of the unification of Britain by James, who believed his policies would result in a well governed and prosperous unified realm being passed on to his heir.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHadfield200499-36">[34]</a> Hadfield argued that the play was meant as a warning to James as in the play a monarch loses everything by giving in to his sycophantic courtiers who only seek to use him while neglecting those who truly loved him.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHadfield200499-36">[34]</a> Hadfield also argued that the world of Lear's court is "childish" with Lear presenting himself as the father of the nation and requiring all of his subjects, not just his children, to address him in paternal terms, which infantises most of the people around him, which pointedly references James's statement in his 1598 book The Trew Law of Free Monarchies that the king is the "father of the nation", for whom all of his subjects are his children.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHadfield2004100–101-37">[35]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Psychoanalytic_and_psychosocial_interpretations">Psychoanalytic and psychosocial interpretations</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=King_Lear&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Psychoanalytic and psychosocial interpretations">edit</a>]</div> King Lear provides a basis for "the primary enactment of psychic breakdown in English literary history".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrown200119-38">[36]</a> The play begins with Lear's "near-fairytale narcissism".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrown200120-39">[37]</a> Given the absence of legitimate mothers in King Lear, <a href="/wiki/Copp%C3%A9lia_Kahn" title="Coppélia Kahn">Coppélia Kahn</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKahn1986-40">[38]</a> provides a psychoanalytic interpretation of the "maternal subtext" found in the play. According to Kahn, Lear's old age forces him to regress into an infantile disposition, and he now seeks a love that is traditionally satisfied by a mothering woman, but in the absence of a real mother, his daughters become the mother figures. Lear's contest of love between Goneril, Regan, and Cordelia serves as the binding agreement; his daughters will get their inheritance provided that they care for him, especially Cordelia, on whose "kind nursery" he will greatly depend.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] Cordelia's refusal to dedicate herself to him and love him as more than a father has been interpreted by some as a resistance to incest, but Kahn also inserts the image of a rejecting mother. The situation is now a reversal of parent-child roles, in which Lear's madness is a childlike rage due to his deprivation of filial/maternal care. Even when Lear and Cordelia are captured together, his madness persists as Lear envisions a nursery in prison, where Cordelia's sole existence is for him. It is only with Cordelia's death that his fantasy of a daughter-mother ultimately diminishes, as King Lear concludes with only male characters living.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lear_and_Cordelia_in_Prison_c1779_N_05189_B_53_Pen_and_watercolour_123%C3%97175_by_William_Blake.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Lear_and_Cordelia_in_Prison_c1779_N_05189_B_53_Pen_and_watercolour_123%C3%97175_by_William_Blake.jpg/300px-Lear_and_Cordelia_in_Prison_c1779_N_05189_B_53_Pen_and_watercolour_123%C3%97175_by_William_Blake.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="222" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Lear_and_Cordelia_in_Prison_c1779_N_05189_B_53_Pen_and_watercolour_123%C3%97175_by_William_Blake.jpg/450px-Lear_and_Cordelia_in_Prison_c1779_N_05189_B_53_Pen_and_watercolour_123%C3%97175_by_William_Blake.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Lear_and_Cordelia_in_Prison_c1779_N_05189_B_53_Pen_and_watercolour_123%C3%97175_by_William_Blake.jpg/600px-Lear_and_Cordelia_in_Prison_c1779_N_05189_B_53_Pen_and_watercolour_123%C3%97175_by_William_Blake.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1536" data-file-height="1136" /></a><figcaption>Lear and Cordelia in Prison – <a href="/wiki/William_Blake" title="William Blake">William Blake</a> c. 1779</figcaption></figure> <a href="/wiki/Sigmund_Freud" title="Sigmund Freud">Sigmund Freud</a> asserted that Cordelia symbolises Death. Therefore, when the play begins with Lear rejecting his daughter, it can be interpreted as him rejecting death; Lear is unwilling to face the finitude of his being. The play's poignant ending scene, wherein Lear carries the body of his beloved Cordelia, was of great importance to Freud. In this scene, Cordelia forces the realization of his finitude, or as Freud put it, she causes him to "make friends with the necessity of dying".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFreud1997120-41">[39]</a> Alternatively, an analysis based on <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Adler" title="Alfred Adler">Adlerian</a> theory suggests that the King's contest among his daughters in Act I has more to do with his control over the unmarried Cordelia.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcLaughlin197839-42">[40]</a> This theory indicates that the King's "dethronement"<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECroake1983247-43">[41]</a> might have led him to seek control that he lost after he divided his land.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] In his study of the character-portrayal of Edmund, <a href="/wiki/Harold_Bloom" title="Harold Bloom">Harold Bloom</a> refers to him as "Shakespeare's most original character".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBloom2008317-44">[42]</a> "As Hazlitt pointed out", writes Bloom, "Edmund does not share in the hypocrisy of Goneril and Regan: his Machiavellianism is absolutely pure, and lacks an Oedipal motive. Freud's vision of family romances simply does not apply to Edmund. Iago is free to reinvent himself every minute, yet Iago has strong passions, however negative. Edmund has no passions whatsoever; he has never loved anyone, and he never will. In that respect, he is Shakespeare's most original character."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBloom2008317-44">[42]</a> The tragedy of Lear's lack of understanding of the consequences of his demands and actions is often observed to be like that of a spoiled child, but it has also been noted that his behaviour is equally likely to be seen in parents who have never adjusted to their children having grown up.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKamaralli2015-45">[43]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Christianity">Christianity</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=King_Lear&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Christianity">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:King_Lear_and_Cordelia_(West,_1793).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/King_Lear_and_Cordelia_%28West%2C_1793%29.jpg/220px-King_Lear_and_Cordelia_%28West%2C_1793%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="177" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/King_Lear_and_Cordelia_%28West%2C_1793%29.jpg/330px-King_Lear_and_Cordelia_%28West%2C_1793%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/King_Lear_and_Cordelia_%28West%2C_1793%29.jpg/440px-King_Lear_and_Cordelia_%28West%2C_1793%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1536" data-file-height="1235" /></a><figcaption>A 1793 painting of King Lear and Cordelia by <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_West" title="Benjamin West">Benjamin West</a></figcaption></figure> Critics are divided on the question of whether King Lear represents an affirmation of a particular Christian doctrine.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPeat198243-46">[44]</a> Those who think it does posit different arguments, which include the significance of Lear's self-divestment.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKronenfeld1998181-47">[45]</a> For some critics, this reflects the Christian concepts of the fall of the mighty and the inevitable loss of worldly possessions. By 1569, sermons delivered at court such as those at Windsor declared how "rich men are rich dust, wise men wise dust... From him that weareth purple, and beareth the crown down to him that is clad with meanest apparel, there is nothing but garboil, and ruffle, and hoisting, and lingering wrath, and fear of death and death itself, and hunger, and many a whip of God."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKronenfeld1998181-47">[45]</a> Some see this in Cordelia and what she symbolised—that the material body are mere husks that would eventually be discarded so that the fruit can be reached.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPeat198243-46">[44]</a> Among those who argue that Lear is redeemed in the Christian sense through suffering are <a href="/wiki/A.C._Bradley" class="mw-redirect" title="A.C. Bradley">A.C. Bradley</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBradley1905285-48">[46]</a> and John Reibetanz, who has written: "through his sufferings, Lear has won an enlightened soul".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEReibetanz1977108-49">[47]</a> Other critics who find no evidence of redemption and emphasise the horrors of the final act include <a href="/wiki/John_Holloway_(poet)" title="John Holloway (poet)">John Holloway</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHolloway1961-50">[48]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">page needed</a>] and Marvin Rosenberg.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERosenberg1992-51">[49]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">page needed</a>] William R. Elton stresses the pre-Christian setting of the play, writing that, "Lear fulfills the criteria for pagan behavior in life," falling "into total blasphemy at the moment of his irredeemable loss".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEElton1988260-52">[50]</a> This is related to the way some sources cite that at the end of the narrative, King Lear raged against heaven before eventually dying in despair with the death of Cordelia.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPierce2008xx-53">[51]</a> Harold Bloom argues that King Lear transcends a morality system entirely, and thus is one of the major triumphs of the play. Bloom writes that in the play there is, "... no theology, no metaphysics, no ethics".<a href="#cite_note-54">[52]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Performance_history">Performance history</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=King_Lear&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Performance history">edit</a>]</div> King Lear has been performed by esteemed actors since the 17th century, when men played all the roles. From the 20th century, a number of women have played male roles in the play; most commonly the Fool, who has been played (among others) by <a href="/wiki/Judy_Davis" title="Judy Davis">Judy Davis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Emma_Thompson" title="Emma Thompson">Emma Thompson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Robyn_Nevin" title="Robyn Nevin">Robyn Nevin</a>. Lear himself has been played by <a href="/wiki/Marianne_Hoppe" title="Marianne Hoppe">Marianne Hoppe</a> in 1990,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECroall201570-55">[53]</a> by <a href="/wiki/Janet_Wright" title="Janet Wright">Janet Wright</a> in 1995,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENestruck2016-56">[54]</a> by <a href="/wiki/Kathryn_Hunter" title="Kathryn Hunter">Kathryn Hunter</a> in 1996–97,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGay2002171-57">[55]</a> and by <a href="/wiki/Glenda_Jackson" title="Glenda Jackson">Glenda Jackson</a> in 2016 and 2019.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECavendish2016-58">[56]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="17th_century">17th century</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=King_Lear&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: 17th century">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:LearTate.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/LearTate.jpg/220px-LearTate.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="290" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/LearTate.jpg/330px-LearTate.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/LearTate.jpg/440px-LearTate.jpg 2x" data-file-width="650" data-file-height="858" /></a><figcaption>Cover of <a href="/wiki/Nahum_Tate" title="Nahum Tate">Tate</a>'s The History of King Lear</figcaption></figure> Shakespeare wrote the role of Lear for his company's chief tragedian, <a href="/wiki/Richard_Burbage" title="Richard Burbage">Richard Burbage</a>, for whom Shakespeare was writing incrementally older characters as their careers progressed.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaylor20025-59">[57]</a> It has been speculated either that the role of the Fool was written for the company's clown <a href="/wiki/Robert_Armin" title="Robert Armin">Robert Armin</a>, or that it was written for performance by one of the company's <a href="/wiki/Boy_player" title="Boy player">boys</a>, doubling the role of Cordelia.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThomson2002143-60">[58]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaylor20026-61">[59]</a> Only one specific performance of the play during Shakespeare's lifetime is known: before the court of <a href="/wiki/James_I_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="James I of England">King James I</a> at Whitehall on 26 December 1606.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHunter197245-62">[60]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaylor200218–19-63">[61]</a> Its original performances would have been at <a href="/wiki/Globe_Theatre" title="Globe Theatre">The Globe</a>, where there were no sets in the modern sense, and characters would have signified their roles visually with props and costumes: Lear's costume, for example, would have changed in the course of the play as his status diminished: commencing in crown and regalia; then as a huntsman; raging bareheaded in the storm scene; and finally crowned with flowers in parody of his original status.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGurrIchikawa200053–54-64">[62]</a> All theatres were closed down by the <a href="/wiki/Puritan" class="mw-redirect" title="Puritan">Puritan</a> government on 6 September 1642. Upon the <a href="/wiki/English_Restoration" class="mw-redirect" title="English Restoration">restoration</a> of the monarchy in 1660, two patent companies (the <a href="/wiki/King%27s_Company" title="King's Company">King's Company</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Duke%27s_Company" title="Duke's Company">Duke's Company</a>) were established, and the existing theatrical repertoire divided between them.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsden200221-65">[63]</a> And from the restoration until the mid-19th century the performance history of King Lear is not the story of Shakespeare's version, but instead of <a href="/wiki/The_History_of_King_Lear" title="The History of King Lear">The History of King Lear</a>, a popular adaptation by <a href="/wiki/Nahum_Tate" title="Nahum Tate">Nahum Tate</a>. Its most significant deviations from Shakespeare were to omit the Fool entirely, to introduce a happy ending in which Lear and Cordelia survive, and to develop a love story between Cordelia and Edgar (two characters who never interact in Shakespeare) which ends with their marriage.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaylor2003324–325-66">[64]</a> Like most Restoration adapters of Shakespeare, Tate admired Shakespeare's natural genius but saw fit to augment his work with contemporary standards of art (which were largely guided by the neoclassical <a href="/wiki/Unities" class="mw-redirect" title="Unities">unities</a> of time, place, and action).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBradley201043-67">[65]</a> Tate's struggle to strike a balance between raw nature and refined art is apparent in his description of the tragedy: "a heap of jewels, unstrung and unpolish't; yet so dazzling in their disorder, that I soon perceiv'd I had seiz'd a treasure."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEArmstrong2003312-68">[66]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJackson1986190-69">[67]</a> Other changes included giving Cordelia a confidante named Arante, bringing the play closer to contemporary notions of <a href="/wiki/Poetic_justice" title="Poetic justice">poetic justice</a>, and adding titilating material such as amorous encounters between Edmund and both Regan and Goneril, a scene in which Edgar rescues Cordelia from Edmund's attempted kidnapping and rape,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPotter2001186-70">[68]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsden200228-71">[69]</a> and a scene in which Cordelia wears men's pants that would reveal the actress's ankles.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBradley201047-72">[70]</a> The play ends with a celebration of "the King's blest Restauration", an obvious reference to <a href="/wiki/Charles_II_of_England" title="Charles II of England">Charles II</a>.<a href="#cite_note-73">[c]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="18th_century">18th century</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=King_Lear&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: 18th century">edit</a>]</div> In the early 18th century, some writers began to express objections to this (and other) Restoration adaptations of Shakespeare. For example, in <a href="/wiki/The_Spectator_(1711)" title="The Spectator (1711)">The Spectator</a> on 16 April 1711 <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Addison" title="Joseph Addison">Joseph Addison</a> wrote "King Lear is an admirable Tragedy ... as Shakespeare wrote it; but as it is reformed according to the chymerical Notion of poetical Justice in my humble Opinion it hath lost half its Beauty." Yet on the stage, Tate's version prevailed.<a href="#cite_note-75">[d]</a> <a href="/wiki/David_Garrick" title="David Garrick">David Garrick</a> was the first actor-manager to begin to cut back on elements of Tate's adaptation in favour of Shakespeare's original: he retained Tate's major changes, including the happy ending, but removed many of Tate's lines, including Edgar's closing speech.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETatspaugh2003528-76">[72]</a> He also reduced the prominence of the Edgar-Cordelia love story, in order to focus more on the relationship between Lear and his daughters.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsden200233-77">[73]</a> His version had a powerful emotional impact: Lear driven to madness by his daughters was (in the words of one spectator, Arthur Murphy) "the finest tragic distress ever seen on any stage" and, in contrast, the devotion shown to Lear by Cordelia (a mix of Shakespeare's, Tate's and Garrick's contributions to the part) moved the audience to tears.<a href="#cite_note-78">[e]</a> The first professional performances of King Lear in North America are likely to have been those of the <a href="/wiki/American_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="American Company">Hallam Company</a> (later the American Company) which arrived in Virginia in 1752 and who counted the play among their repertoire by the time of their departure for Jamaica in 1774.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMorrison2002232-79">[74]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="19th_century">19th century</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=King_Lear&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: 19th century">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:James_Barry_002.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/James_Barry_002.jpg/300px-James_Barry_002.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="217" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/James_Barry_002.jpg/450px-James_Barry_002.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/James_Barry_002.jpg/600px-James_Barry_002.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2024" data-file-height="1464" /></a><figcaption>King Lear mourns Cordelia's death, <a href="/wiki/James_Barry_(painter)" title="James Barry (painter)">James Barry</a>, 1786–1788</figcaption></figure> <a href="/wiki/Charles_Lamb" title="Charles Lamb">Charles Lamb</a> established the <a href="/wiki/Romanticism" title="Romanticism">Romantics</a>' attitude to King Lear in his 1811 essay "On the Tragedies of Shakespeare, considered with reference to their fitness for stage representation" where he says that the play "is essentially impossible to be represented on the stage", preferring to experience it in the study. In the theatre, he argues, "to see Lear acted, to see an old man tottering about the stage with a walking-stick, turned out of doors by his daughters on a rainy night, has nothing in it but what is painful and disgusting" yet "while we read it, we see not Lear but we are Lear,—we are in his mind, we are sustained by a grandeur which baffles the malice of daughters and storms."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMoody200240-80">[75]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHunter197250-81">[76]</a> Literary critic Janet Ruth Heller elaborates on the hostility of Lamb, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Hazlitt to performances of tragedy, especially Shakespearean tragedy. They believed that such stagings appealed more to the senses than the imagination. However, reading stimulates the imagination. Also, Heller traces the history of the idea that tragedy should be read, not performed, back to Plato and to misreadings of Aristotle's Poetics. See Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama, University of Missouri Press, 1990).[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] King Lear was politically controversial during the period of <a href="/wiki/George_III_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="George III of the United Kingdom">George III</a>'s madness, and as a result was not performed at all in the two professional theatres of London from 1811 to 1820: but was then the subject of major productions in both, within three months of his death.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPotter2001189-82">[77]</a> The 19th century saw the gradual reintroduction of Shakespeare's text to displace Tate's version. Like <a href="/wiki/David_Garrick" title="David Garrick">Garrick</a> before him, <a href="/wiki/John_Philip_Kemble" title="John Philip Kemble">John Philip Kemble</a> had introduced more of Shakespeare's text, while still preserving the three main elements of Tate's version: the love story, the omission of the Fool, and the happy ending. <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Kean" title="Edmund Kean">Edmund Kean</a> played King Lear with its tragic ending in 1823, but failed and reverted to Tate's crowd-pleaser after only three performances.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPotter2001190–191-83">[78]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWells199762-84">[79]</a> At last in 1838, <a href="/wiki/William_Macready" title="William Macready">William Macready</a> at Covent Garden performed Shakespeare's version, freed from Tate's adaptions.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPotter2001190–191-83">[78]</a> The restored character of the Fool was played by an actress, <a href="/wiki/Priscilla_Horton" title="Priscilla Horton">Priscilla Horton</a>, as, in the words of one spectator, "a fragile, hectic, beautiful-faced, half-idiot-looking boy".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPotter2001191-85">[80]</a> And <a href="/wiki/Helena_Faucit" title="Helena Faucit">Helen Faucit</a>'s final appearance as Cordelia, dead in her father's arms, became one of the most iconic of Victorian images.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGay2002161-86">[81]</a> <a href="/wiki/John_Forster_(biographer)" title="John Forster (biographer)">John Forster</a>, writing in the <a href="/wiki/The_Examiner_(1808%E2%80%9386)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Examiner (1808–86)">Examiner</a> on 14 February 1838, expressed the hope that "Mr Macready's success has banished that disgrace [Tate's version] from the stage for ever."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWells199773-87">[82]</a> But even this version was not close to Shakespeare's: the 19th-century actor-managers heavily cut Shakespeare's scripts: ending scenes on big "curtain effects" and reducing or eliminating supporting roles to give greater prominence to the star.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHunter197251-88">[83]</a> One of Macready's innovations—the use of <a href="/wiki/Stonehenge" title="Stonehenge">Stonehenge</a>-like structures on stage to indicate an ancient setting—proved enduring on stage into the 20th century, and can be seen in the 1983 television version starring <a href="/wiki/Laurence_Olivier" title="Laurence Olivier">Laurence Olivier</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFoakes199730–31-89">[84]</a> In 1843, the <a href="/wiki/Theatres_Act_1843" title="Theatres Act 1843">Act for Regulating the Theatres</a> came into force, bringing an end to the monopolies of the two existing companies and, by doing so, increased the number of theatres in London.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPotter2001191-85">[80]</a> At the same time, the fashion in theatre was "pictorial": valuing visual spectacle above plot or characterisation and often required lengthy (and time-consuming) scene changes.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchoch200258–75-90">[85]</a> For example, <a href="/wiki/Henry_Irving" title="Henry Irving">Henry Irving</a>'s 1892 King Lear offered spectacles such as Lear's death beneath a cliff at Dover, his face lit by the red glow of a setting sun; at the expense of cutting 46% of the text, including the blinding of Gloucester.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPotter2001193-91">[86]</a> But Irving's production clearly evoked strong emotions: one spectator, Gordon Crosse, wrote of the first entrance of Lear, "a striking figure with masses of white hair. He is leaning on a huge scabbarded sword which he raises with a wild cry in answer to the shouted greeting of his guards. His gait, his looks, his gestures, all reveal the noble, imperious mind already degenerating into senile irritability under the coming shocks of grief and age."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJackson1986206-92">[87]</a> The importance of pictorialism to Irving, and to other theatre professionals of the Victorian era, is exemplified by the fact that Irving had used <a href="/wiki/Ford_Madox_Brown" title="Ford Madox Brown">Ford Madox Brown</a>'s painting Cordelia's Portion as the inspiration for the look of his production, and that the artist himself was brought in to provide sketches for the settings of other scenes.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchoch200263-93">[88]</a> A reaction against pictorialism came with the rise of the reconstructive movement, believers in a simple style of staging more similar to that which would have pertained in renaissance theatres, whose chief early exponent was the actor-manager <a href="/wiki/William_Poel" title="William Poel">William Poel</a>. Poel was influenced by a performance of King Lear directed by Jocza Savits at the Hoftheater in Munich in 1890, set on an <a href="/wiki/Apron_stage" title="Apron stage">apron stage</a> with a three-tier <a href="/wiki/Globe_Theatre" title="Globe Theatre">Globe</a>—like reconstruction theatre as its backdrop. Poel would use this same configuration for his own Shakespearean performances in 1893.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEO'Connor200278-94">[89]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="20th_century">20th century</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=King_Lear&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: 20th century">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cordelia%27s_Portion.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Cordelia%27s_Portion.jpg/300px-Cordelia%27s_Portion.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="212" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Cordelia%27s_Portion.jpg/450px-Cordelia%27s_Portion.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Cordelia%27s_Portion.jpg/600px-Cordelia%27s_Portion.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1226" data-file-height="867" /></a><figcaption>Cordelia's Portion by <a href="/wiki/Ford_Madox_Brown" title="Ford Madox Brown">Ford Madox Brown</a></figcaption></figure> By mid-century, the actor–manager tradition had declined, to be replaced by a structure in which the major theatre companies employed professional directors as auteurs. The last of the great actor–managers, <a href="/wiki/Donald_Wolfit" title="Donald Wolfit">Donald Wolfit</a>, played Lear in 1944 on a Stonehenge-like set and was praised by <a href="/wiki/James_Agate" title="James Agate">James Agate</a> as "the greatest piece of Shakespearean acting since I have been privileged to write for the Sunday Times".<a href="#cite_note-96">[f]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFoakes199789-97">[91]</a> Wolfit supposedly drank eight bottles of Guinness in the course of each performance.<a href="#cite_note-99">[g]</a> The character of Lear in the 19th century was often that of a frail old man from the opening scene, but Lears of the 20th century often began the play as strong men displaying regal authority, including <a href="/wiki/John_Gielgud" title="John Gielgud">John Gielgud</a>, <a href="/wiki/Donald_Wolfit" title="Donald Wolfit">Donald Wolfit</a> and <a href="/wiki/Donald_Sinden" title="Donald Sinden">Donald Sinden</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFoakes199724-100">[93]</a> Cordelia, also, evolved in the 20th century: earlier Cordelias had often been praised for being sweet, innocent and modest, but 20th-century Cordelias were often portrayed as war leaders. For example, <a href="/wiki/Peggy_Ashcroft" title="Peggy Ashcroft">Peggy Ashcroft</a>, at the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Shakespeare_Theatre" title="Royal Shakespeare Theatre">RST</a> in 1950, played the role in a breastplate and carrying a sword.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFoakes199736–37-101">[94]</a> Similarly, the Fool evolved through the course of the century, with portrayals often deriving from the <a href="/wiki/Music_hall" title="Music hall">music hall</a> or <a href="/wiki/Circus" title="Circus">circus</a> tradition.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFoakes199752-102">[95]</a> At Stratford-upon-Avon in 1962 <a href="/wiki/Peter_Brook" title="Peter Brook">Peter Brook</a> (who would later film the play with the same actor, <a href="/wiki/Paul_Scofield" title="Paul Scofield">Paul Scofield</a>, in the role of Lear) set the action simply, against a huge, empty white stage. The effect of the scene when Lear and Gloucester meet, two tiny figures in rags in the midst of this emptiness, was said (by the scholar Roger Warren) to catch "both the human pathos ... and the universal scale ... of the scene".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWarren1986266-103">[96]</a> Some of the lines from the radio broadcast were used by <a href="/wiki/The_Beatles" title="The Beatles">The Beatles</a> to add into the recorded mix of the song "<a href="/wiki/I_Am_the_Walrus" title="I Am the Walrus">I Am the Walrus</a>". <a href="/wiki/John_Lennon" title="John Lennon">John Lennon</a> happened upon the play on the <a href="/wiki/BBC_Third_Programme" title="BBC Third Programme">BBC Third Programme</a> while fiddling with the radio while working on the song. The voices of actors <a href="/wiki/Mark_Dignam" title="Mark Dignam">Mark Dignam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Philip_Guard" title="Philip Guard">Philip Guard</a>, and John Bryning from the play are all heard in the song.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEverett1999134–136-104">[97]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELewisohn1988128-105">[98]</a> Like other Shakespearean tragedies, King Lear has proved amenable to conversion into other theatrical traditions. In 1989, David McRuvie and <a href="/wiki/Iyyamkode_Sreedharan" class="mw-redirect" title="Iyyamkode Sreedharan">Iyyamkode Sreedharan</a> adapted the play then translated it to <a href="/wiki/Malayalam" title="Malayalam">Malayalam</a>, for performance in <a href="/wiki/Kerala" title="Kerala">Kerala</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Kathakali" title="Kathakali">Kathakali</a> tradition—which itself developed around 1600, contemporary with Shakespeare's writing. The show later went on tour, and in 2000 played at <a href="/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_Globe" title="Shakespeare's Globe">Shakespeare's Globe</a>, completing, according to Anthony Dawson, "a kind of symbolic circle".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDawson2002178-106">[99]</a> Perhaps even more radical was <a href="/wiki/Ong_Keng_Sen" title="Ong Keng Sen">Ong Keng Sen</a>'s 1997 adaptation of King Lear, which featured six actors each performing in a separate Asian acting tradition and in their own separate languages. A pivotal moment occurred when the <a href="/wiki/Peking_opera" title="Peking opera">Jingju</a> performer playing Older Daughter (a conflation of Goneril and Regan) stabbed the <a href="/wiki/Noh" title="Noh">Noh</a>-performed Lear whose "falling pine" deadfall, straight face-forward into the stage, astonished the audience, in what Yong Li Lan describes as a "triumph through the moving power of noh performance at the very moment of his character's defeat".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELan2005532-107">[100]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGilliesMinamiLiTrivedi2002265-108">[101]</a> In 1974, <a href="/wiki/Buzz_Goodbody" title="Buzz Goodbody">Buzz Goodbody</a> directed Lear, a deliberately abbreviated title for Shakespeare's text, as the inaugural production of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Shakespeare_Company" title="Royal Shakespeare Company">RSC</a>'s studio theatre <a href="/wiki/The_Other_Place_(theatre)" title="The Other Place (theatre)">The Other Place</a>. The performance was conceived as a chamber piece, the small intimate space and proximity to the audience enabled detailed psychological acting, which was performed with simple sets and in modern dress.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHolland2001211-109">[102]</a> Peter Holland has speculated that this company/directoral decision—namely choosing to present Shakespeare in a small venue for artistic reasons when a larger venue was available—may at the time have been unprecedented.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHolland2001211-109">[102]</a> Brook's earlier vision of the play proved influential, and directors have gone further in presenting Lear as (in the words of <a href="/wiki/R._A._Foakes" title="R. A. Foakes">R. A. Foakes</a>) "a pathetic senior citizen trapped in a violent and hostile environment". When <a href="/wiki/John_Wood_(English_actor)" title="John Wood (English actor)">John Wood</a> took the role in 1990, he played the later scenes in clothes that looked like cast-offs, inviting deliberate parallels with the uncared-for in modern Western societies.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFoakes199727–28-110">[103]</a> Indeed, modern productions of Shakespeare's plays often reflect the world in which they are performed as much as the world for which they were written: and the Moscow theatre scene in 1994 provided an example, when two very different productions of the play (those by Sergei Zhonovach and Alexei Borodin), very different from one another in their style and outlook, were both reflections on the break-up of the Soviet Union.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHolland2001213-111">[104]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="21st_century">21st century</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=King_Lear&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: 21st century">edit</a>]</div> In 2002 and 2010, the <a href="/wiki/Hudson_Shakespeare_Company" title="Hudson Shakespeare Company">Hudson Shakespeare Company</a> of New Jersey staged separate productions as part of their respective <a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_in_the_Park_festivals" title="Shakespeare in the Park festivals">Shakespeare in the Parks</a> seasons. The 2002 version was directed by Michael Collins and transposed the action to a West Indies, nautical setting. Actors were featured in outfits indicative of looks of various Caribbean islands. The 2010 production directed by Jon Ciccarelli was fashioned after the atmosphere of the film <a href="/wiki/The_Dark_Knight" title="The Dark Knight">The Dark Knight</a> with a palette of reds and blacks and set the action in an urban setting. Lear (Tom Cox) appeared as a head of multi-national conglomerate who divided up his fortune among his socialite daughter Goneril (Brenda Scott), his officious middle daughter Regan (Noelle Fair) and university daughter Cordelia (Emily Best).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBeckerman2010-112">[105]</a> In 2012, renowned Canadian director Peter Hinton directed an all-<a href="/wiki/First_Nations_in_Canada" title="First Nations in Canada">First Nations</a> production of King Lear at the <a href="/wiki/National_Arts_Centre" title="National Arts Centre">National Arts Centre</a> in Ottawa, Ontario, with the setting changed to an <a href="/wiki/Algonquin_people" title="Algonquin people">Algonquin</a> nation in the 17th century.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENestruck2012-113">[106]</a> The cast included <a href="/wiki/August_Schellenberg" title="August Schellenberg">August Schellenberg</a> as Lear, <a href="/wiki/Billy_Merasty" title="Billy Merasty">Billy Merasty</a> as Gloucester, <a href="/wiki/Tantoo_Cardinal" title="Tantoo Cardinal">Tantoo Cardinal</a> as Regan, <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Loring" title="Kevin Loring">Kevin Loring</a> as Edmund, <a href="/wiki/Jani_Lauzon" title="Jani Lauzon">Jani Lauzon</a> in a <a href="/wiki/Dual_role" title="Dual role">dual role</a> as Cordelia and the Fool, and <a href="/wiki/Craig_Lauzon" title="Craig Lauzon">Craig Lauzon</a> as Kent.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENestruck2012-113">[106]</a> In 2015, Toronto's <a href="/wiki/Theatre_Passe_Muraille" title="Theatre Passe Muraille">Theatre Passe Muraille</a> staged a production set in <a href="/wiki/Upper_Canada" title="Upper Canada">Upper Canada</a> against the backdrop of the <a href="/wiki/Upper_Canada_Rebellion" title="Upper Canada Rebellion">Upper Canada Rebellion</a> of 1837. This production starred <a href="/wiki/David_Fox_(actor)" title="David Fox (actor)">David Fox</a> as Lear.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOuzounian2015-114">[107]</a> In the summer of 2015–2016, The <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Theatre_Company" title="Sydney Theatre Company">Sydney Theatre Company</a> staged King Lear, directed by <a href="/wiki/Neil_Armfield" title="Neil Armfield">Neil Armfield</a> with <a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Rush" title="Geoffrey Rush">Geoffrey Rush</a> in the lead role and <a href="/wiki/Robyn_Nevin" title="Robyn Nevin">Robyn Nevin</a> as the Fool. About the madness at the heart of the play, Rush said that for him "it's about finding the dramatic impact in the moments of his mania. What seems to work best is finding a vulnerability or a point of empathy, where an audience can look at Lear and think how shocking it must be to be that old and to be banished from your family into the open air in a storm. That's a level of impoverishment you would never want to see in any other human being, ever."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBlake2015-115">[108]</a> In 2016, <a href="/wiki/Talawa_Theatre_Company" title="Talawa Theatre Company">Talawa Theatre Company</a> and <a href="/wiki/Royal_Exchange_Manchester" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Exchange Manchester">Royal Exchange Manchester</a> co-produced a production of King Lear with <a href="/wiki/Don_Warrington" title="Don Warrington">Don Warrington</a> in the title role.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHutchison2015-116">[109]</a> The production, featuring a largely black cast, was described in The Guardian as being "as close to definitive as can be".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHickling2016-117">[110]</a> The Daily Telegraph wrote that "Don Warrington's King Lear is a heartbreaking tour de force".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAllfree2016-118">[111]</a> King Lear was staged by <a href="/wiki/Royal_Shakespeare_Company" title="Royal Shakespeare Company">Royal Shakespeare Company</a>, with Antony Sher in the lead role. The performance was directed by Gregory Doran and was described as having "strength and depth".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBillington2016-119">[112]</a> In 2017, the <a href="/wiki/Guthrie_Theater" title="Guthrie Theater">Guthrie Theater</a> produced a production of King Lear with <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Yoakam" title="Stephen Yoakam">Stephen Yoakam</a> in the title role. <a href="/wiki/Armin_Shimerman" title="Armin Shimerman">Armin Shimerman</a> appeared as the fool, portraying it with "an unusual grimness, but it works",<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERingham2017-120">[113]</a> in a production that was hailed as "a devastating piece of theater, and a production that does it justice".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERingham2017-120">[113]</a> King Lear was part of the <a href="/wiki/Stratford_Festival" title="Stratford Festival">Stratford Festival's</a> 2023 season, with <a href="/wiki/Paul_Gross" title="Paul Gross">Paul Gross</a> playing the title role. The production was directed by Kimberley Rampersad, and was set in "The near future. A kingdom on the precipice."<a href="#cite_note-121">[114]</a> In October 2023, a new production directed by and starring <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Branagh" title="Kenneth Branagh">Kenneth Branagh</a>, set in Neolithic Britain, began a strictly limited run in London's <a href="/wiki/West_End_theatre" title="West End theatre">West End</a> and was transferred to <a href="/wiki/The_Shed_(arts_center)" title="The Shed (arts center)">The Shed</a> in New York City in October 2024.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWiegand2023-122">[115]</a> A version in modern dress was mounted in February 2024 at the <a href="/wiki/Almeida_Theatre" title="Almeida Theatre">Almeida Theatre</a>, directed by <a href="/wiki/Ya%C3%ABl_Farber" title="Yaël Farber">Yaël Farber</a>. The production featured a much younger Lear, portrayed by <a href="/wiki/Danny_Sapani" title="Danny Sapani">Danny Sapani</a>, alongside <a href="/wiki/Clarke_Peters" title="Clarke Peters">Clarke Peters</a> as the Fool, <a href="/wiki/Fra_Fee" title="Fra Fee">Fra Fee</a> as Edmund, Gloria Obianyo as Cordelia, <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Tennyson" title="Matthew Tennyson">Matthew Tennyson</a> as Edgar, and <a href="/wiki/Alec_Newman" title="Alec Newman">Alec Newman</a> as Kent. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Adaptations">Adaptations</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=King_Lear&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Adaptations">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Film_and_video">Film and video</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=King_Lear&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Film and video">edit</a>]</div> The first film adaptation of King Lear was a five-minute German version made around 1905, which has not survived.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrode2001205-123">[116]</a> The oldest extant version is a ten-minute studio-based version from 1909 by Vitagraph, which, according to Luke McKernan, made the "ill-advised" decision to attempt to cram in as much of the plot as possible.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcKernanTerris199483-124">[117]</a> Two silent versions, both titled Re Lear, were made in Italy in 1910. Of these, the version by director Gerolamo Lo Savio was filmed on location, and it dropped the Edgar sub-plot and used frequent intertitling to make the plot easier to follow than its Vitagraph predecessor.<a href="#cite_note-126">[h]</a> A contemporary setting was used for <a href="/wiki/Louis_Feuillade" title="Louis Feuillade">Louis Feuillade</a>'s 1911 French adaptation Le Roi Lear Au Village, and in 1914 in America, Ernest Warde expanded the story to an hour, including spectacles such as a final battle scene.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrode2001205–206-127">[119]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Joseph_L._Mankiewicz" title="Joseph L. Mankiewicz">Joseph Mankiewicz</a> (1949) <a href="/wiki/House_of_Strangers" title="House of Strangers">House of Strangers</a> is often considered a Lear adaptation, but the parallels are more striking in <a href="/wiki/Broken_Lance" title="Broken Lance">Broken Lance</a> (1954) in which a cattle baron played by <a href="/wiki/Spencer_Tracy" title="Spencer Tracy">Spencer Tracy</a> tyrannizes his three sons, and only the youngest, Joe, played by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Wagner" title="Robert Wagner">Robert Wagner</a>, remains loyal.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcKernanTerris199484–85-128">[120]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:House-of-strangers-trailer.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/House-of-strangers-trailer.jpg/300px-House-of-strangers-trailer.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="217" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/House-of-strangers-trailer.jpg/450px-House-of-strangers-trailer.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/House-of-strangers-trailer.jpg/600px-House-of-strangers-trailer.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="924" /></a><figcaption>Screenshot from trailer for <a href="/wiki/House_of_Strangers" title="House of Strangers">House of Strangers</a> (1949). "The film has two antecedents—biblical references to Joseph and his brothers and King Lear".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGriggs2009122-129">[121]</a></figcaption></figure> The TV anthology series <a href="/wiki/Omnibus_(U.S._TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Omnibus (U.S. TV series)">Omnibus</a> (1952–1961) staged a 73-minute version of <a href="/wiki/King_Lear_(1953_film)" title="King Lear (1953 film)">King Lear</a> on 18 October 1953. It was adapted by <a href="/wiki/Peter_Brook" title="Peter Brook">Peter Brook</a> and starred <a href="/wiki/Orson_Welles" title="Orson Welles">Orson Welles</a> in his American television debut.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECrosby1953-130">[122]</a> Two screen versions of King Lear date from the early 1970s: <a href="/wiki/Grigori_Kozintsev" title="Grigori Kozintsev">Grigori Kozintsev</a>'s <a href="/wiki/King_Lear_(1971_USSR_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="King Lear (1971 USSR film)">Korol Lir</a>,<a href="#cite_note-133">[i]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Peter_Brook" title="Peter Brook">Peter Brook's</a> film of <a href="/wiki/King_Lear_(1971_UK_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="King Lear (1971 UK film)">King Lear</a>, which stars <a href="/wiki/Paul_Scofield" title="Paul Scofield">Paul Scofield</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrode2001206-134">[125]</a> Brook's film starkly divided the critics: <a href="/wiki/Pauline_Kael" title="Pauline Kael">Pauline Kael</a> said "I didn't just dislike this production, I hated it!" and suggested the alternative title <a href="/wiki/Night_of_the_Living_Dead" title="Night of the Living Dead">Night of the Living Dead</a>.<a href="#cite_note-136">[j]</a> Yet Robert Hatch in <a href="/wiki/The_Nation" title="The Nation">The Nation</a> thought it as "excellent a filming of the play as one can expect" and <a href="/wiki/Vincent_Canby" title="Vincent Canby">Vincent Canby</a> in <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a> called it "an exalting Lear, full of exquisite terror".<a href="#cite_note-137">[k]</a> The film drew on the ideas of <a href="/wiki/Jan_Kott" title="Jan Kott">Jan Kott</a>, in particular his observation that King Lear was the precursor of <a href="/wiki/Theatre_of_the_Absurd" class="mw-redirect" title="Theatre of the Absurd">absurdist theatre</a>, and that it has parallels with <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Beckett" title="Samuel Beckett">Beckett</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Endgame_(play)" title="Endgame (play)">Endgame</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrode2001206–207-138">[127]</a> Critics who dislike the film particularly draw attention to its bleak nature from its opening: complaining that the world of the play does not deteriorate with Lear's suffering, but commences dark, colourless and wintry, leaving, according to Douglas Brode, "Lear, the land, and us with nowhere to go".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrode2001206–210-139">[128]</a> Cruelty pervades the film, which does not distinguish between the violence of ostensibly good and evil characters, presenting both savagely.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERosenthal200782-140">[129]</a> Paul Scofield, as Lear, eschews sentimentality: This demanding old man with a coterie of unruly knights provokes audience sympathy for the daughters in the early scenes, and his presentation explicitly rejects the tradition of playing Lear as "poor old white-haired patriarch".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERosenthal200783-141">[130]</a> <a href="/wiki/King_Lear_(1971_USSR_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="King Lear (1971 USSR film)">Korol Lir</a> has been praised by critic Alexander Anikst for the "serious, deeply thoughtful" even "philosophical approach" of director <a href="/wiki/Grigori_Kozintsev" title="Grigori Kozintsev">Grigori Kozintsev</a> and writer <a href="/wiki/Boris_Pasternak" title="Boris Pasternak">Boris Pasternak</a>. Making a thinly veiled criticism of Brook in the process, Anikst praised the fact that there were "no attempts at sensationalism, no efforts to 'modernise' Shakespeare by introducing Freudian themes, Existentialist ideas, eroticism, or sexual perversion. [Kozintsev] ... has simply made a film of Shakespeare's tragedy."<a href="#cite_note-143">[l]</a> <a href="/wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich" title="Dmitri Shostakovich">Dmitri Shostakovich</a> provided an epic score, its motifs including an (increasingly ironic) trumpet fanfare for Lear, and a five-bar "Call to Death" marking each character's demise.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERosenthal200781-144">[132]</a> Kozintzev described his vision of the film as an ensemble piece: with Lear, played by a dynamic <a href="/wiki/J%C3%BCri_J%C3%A4rvet" title="Jüri Järvet">Jüri Järvet</a>, as first among equals in a cast of fully developed characters.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrode2001211–212-145">[133]</a> The film highlights Lear's role as king by including his people throughout the film on a scale no stage production could emulate, charting the central character's decline from their god to their helpless equal; his final descent into madness marked by his realisation that he has neglected the "poor naked wretches".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERosenthal200779–80-146">[134]</a><a href="#cite_note-147">[135]</a> As the film progresses, ruthless characters—Goneril, Regan, Edmund—increasingly appear isolated in shots, in contrast to the director's focus, throughout the film, on masses of human beings.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuntner2007134–135-148">[136]</a> <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Miller" title="Jonathan Miller">Jonathan Miller</a> twice directed <a href="/wiki/Michael_Hordern" title="Michael Hordern">Michael Hordern</a> in the title role for English television, the first for the BBC's <a href="/wiki/Play_of_the_Month" title="Play of the Month">Play of the Month</a> in 1975 and the second for the <a href="/wiki/BBC_Television_Shakespeare" title="BBC Television Shakespeare">BBC Television Shakespeare</a> in 1982. Hordern received mixed reviews, and was considered a bold choice due to his history of taking much lighter roles.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcKernanTerris199485–87-149">[137]</a> Also for English television, <a href="/wiki/Laurence_Olivier" title="Laurence Olivier">Laurence Olivier</a> took the role in a <a href="/wiki/King_Lear_(1983_TV_programme)" title="King Lear (1983 TV programme)">1983 TV production</a> for Granada Television. It was his last screen appearance in a Shakespearean role.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcKernanTerris199487–88-150">[138]</a> In 1985, a major screen adaptation of the play appeared: <a href="/wiki/Ran_(film)" title="Ran (film)">Ran</a>, directed by <a href="/wiki/Akira_Kurosawa" title="Akira Kurosawa">Akira Kurosawa</a>. At the time the most expensive Japanese film ever made, it tells the story of Hidetora, a fictional 16th-century Japanese warlord, whose attempt to divide his kingdom among his three sons leads to an estrangement with the youngest, and ultimately most loyal, of them, and eventually to civil war.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERosenthal200784-151">[139]</a> In contrast to the cold drab greys of Brook and Kozintsev, Kurosawa's film is full of vibrant colour: external scenes in yellows, blues and greens, interiors in browns and ambers, and <a href="/wiki/Emi_Wada" title="Emi Wada">Emi Wada</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Costume_Design" title="Academy Award for Best Costume Design">Oscar</a>-winning colour-coded costumes for each family member's soldiers.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuntner2007136-152">[140]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERosenthal200784-151">[139]</a> Hidetora has a back-story: a violent and ruthless rise to power, and the film portrays contrasting victims: the virtuous characters Sue and Tsurumaru who are able to forgive, and the vengeful Kaede (<a href="/wiki/Mieko_Harada" title="Mieko Harada">Mieko Harada</a>), Hidetora's daughter-in-law and the film's <a href="/wiki/Lady_Macbeth" title="Lady Macbeth">Lady Macbeth</a>-like villain.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERosenthal200784–87-153">[141]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJackson2001225-154">[142]</a> A scene in which a character is threatened with blinding in the manner of Gloucester forms the climax of the 1973 parody horror <a href="/wiki/Theatre_of_Blood" title="Theatre of Blood">Theatre of Blood</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcKernanTerris199485-155">[143]</a> Comic use is made of Sir's inability to physically carry any actress cast as Cordelia opposite his Lear in the <a href="/wiki/The_Dresser_(1983_film)" title="The Dresser (1983 film)">1983 film</a> of the stage play <a href="/wiki/The_Dresser" title="The Dresser">The Dresser</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcKernanTerris199487-156">[144]</a> <a href="/wiki/John_Boorman" title="John Boorman">John Boorman</a>'s 1990 <a href="/wiki/Where_the_Heart_Is_(1990_film)" title="Where the Heart Is (1990 film)">Where the Heart Is</a> features a father who disinherits his three spoiled children.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHoward2007308-157">[145]</a> <a href="/wiki/Francis_Ford_Coppola" title="Francis Ford Coppola">Francis Ford Coppola</a> deliberately incorporated elements of Lear in his 1990 sequel <a href="/wiki/The_Godfather_Part_III" title="The Godfather Part III">The Godfather Part III</a>, including Michael Corleone's attempt to retire from crime throwing his domain into anarchy, and most obviously the death of his daughter in his arms. Parallels have also been drawn between <a href="/wiki/Andy_Garc%C3%ADa" title="Andy García">Andy García</a>'s character Vincent and both Edgar and Edmund, and between <a href="/wiki/Talia_Shire" title="Talia Shire">Talia Shire</a>'s character Connie and Kaede in <a href="/wiki/Ran_(film)" title="Ran (film)">Ran</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHoward2007299-158">[146]</a> In 1997, <a href="/wiki/Jocelyn_Moorhouse" title="Jocelyn Moorhouse">Jocelyn Moorhouse</a> directed <a href="/wiki/A_Thousand_Acres_(film)" title="A Thousand Acres (film)">A Thousand Acres</a>, based on <a href="/wiki/Jane_Smiley" title="Jane Smiley">Jane Smiley</a>'s Pulitzer Prize-winning <a href="/wiki/A_Thousand_Acres" title="A Thousand Acres">novel of the same name</a>, set in 1990s Iowa.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERosenthal200788-159">[147]</a> The film is described, by scholar Tony Howard, as the first adaptation to confront the play's disturbing sexual dimensions.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHoward2007299-158">[146]</a> The story is told from the viewpoint of the elder two daughters, Ginny played by <a href="/wiki/Jessica_Lange" title="Jessica Lange">Jessica Lange</a> and Rose played by <a href="/wiki/Michelle_Pfeiffer" title="Michelle Pfeiffer">Michelle Pfeiffer</a>, who were sexually abused by their father as teenagers. Their younger sister Caroline, played by <a href="/wiki/Jennifer_Jason_Leigh" title="Jennifer Jason Leigh">Jennifer Jason Leigh</a> had escaped this fate and is ultimately the only one to remain loyal.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERosenthal200788–89-160">[148]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrode2001217-161">[149]</a> In 1998, the BBC produced a televised version,<a href="#cite_note-162">[150]</a> directed by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Eyre" title="Richard Eyre">Richard Eyre</a>, of his award-winning 1997 <a href="/wiki/Royal_National_Theatre" title="Royal National Theatre">Royal National Theatre</a> production, starring <a href="/wiki/Ian_Holm" title="Ian Holm">Ian Holm</a> as Lear. In March 2001, in a review originally posted to culturevulture.net, critic Bob Wake observed that the production was "of particular note for preserving Ian Holm’s celebrated stage performance in the title role. Stellar interpreters of Lear haven't always been so fortunate."<a href="#cite_note-163">[151]</a> Wake added that other performances had been poorly documented because they suffered from technological problems (<a href="/wiki/Orson_Welles" title="Orson Welles">Orson Welles</a>), eccentric televised productions (<a href="/wiki/Paul_Scofield" title="Paul Scofield">Paul Scofield</a>), or were filmed when the actor playing Lear was unwell (<a href="/wiki/Laurence_Olivier" title="Laurence Olivier">Laurence Olivier</a>).<a href="#cite_note-164">[152]</a> The play was adapted to the world of gangsters in <a href="/wiki/Don_Boyd" title="Don Boyd">Don Boyd</a>'s 2001 <a href="/wiki/My_Kingdom_(film)" title="My Kingdom (film)">My Kingdom</a>, a version which differs from all others in commencing with the Lear character, Sandeman, played by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Harris" title="Richard Harris">Richard Harris</a>, in a loving relationship with his wife. But her violent death marks the start of an increasingly bleak and violent chain of events (influenced by co-writer Nick Davies' documentary book Dark Heart) which in spite of the director's denial that the film had "serious parallels" to Shakespeare's play, actually mirror aspects of its plot closely.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERosenthal200790–91-165">[153]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELehmann200672–89-166">[154]</a> Unlike Shakespeare's Lear, but like Hidetora and Sandeman, the central character of <a href="/wiki/Uli_Edel" title="Uli Edel">Uli Edel</a>'s 2002 American TV adaptation <a href="/wiki/King_of_Texas" title="King of Texas">King of Texas</a>, John Lear played by <a href="/wiki/Patrick_Stewart" title="Patrick Stewart">Patrick Stewart</a>, has a back-story centred on his violent rise to power as the richest landowner (metaphorically a "king") in General <a href="/wiki/Sam_Houston" title="Sam Houston">Sam Houston</a>'s independent Texas in the early 1840s. Daniel Rosenthal comments that the film was able, by reason of having been commissioned by the cable channel TNT, to include a bleaker and more violent ending than would have been possible on the national networks.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERosenthal200792–93-167">[155]</a> 2003's <a href="/wiki/Channel_4" title="Channel 4">Channel 4</a>-commissioned two-parter Second Generation set the story in the world of Asian manufacturing and music in England.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGreenhalghShaughnessy200699-168">[156]</a> The Canadian comedy-drama TV series <a href="/wiki/Slings_%26_Arrows" title="Slings & Arrows">Slings & Arrows</a> (2003–2006), which follows a fictional Shakespearean theatre festival inspired by the real-life <a href="/wiki/Stratford_Festival" title="Stratford Festival">Stratford Festival</a> in Ontario, devotes its third season to a troubled production of King Lear. The fictional actor starring as Lear (played by <a href="/wiki/William_Hutt_(actor)" title="William Hutt (actor)">William Hutt</a>, who in real life played Lear onstage at Stratford three times to great acclaim<a href="#cite_note-169">[157]</a>) is given the role despite concerns over his advanced age and ill health, plus a secret addiction to <a href="/wiki/Heroin" title="Heroin">heroin</a> discovered by the theatre's director. Eventually the actor's mental state deteriorates until he seems to believe he is Lear himself, wandering into a storm and later reciting his lines uncontrollably. William Hutt himself was in failing health when he filmed the TV role and died less than a year after the third season premiered.<a href="#cite_note-170">[158]</a> In 2008, a version of <a href="/wiki/King_Lear_(2008_film)" title="King Lear (2008 film)">King Lear</a> produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company premiered with <a href="/wiki/Ian_McKellen" title="Ian McKellen">Ian McKellen</a> in the role of King Lear.<a href="#cite_note-171">[159]</a> In the 2012 romantic comedy <a href="/wiki/If_I_Were_You_(2012_Canadian_film)" title="If I Were You (2012 Canadian film)">If I Were You</a>, there is a reference to the play when the lead characters are cast in a female version of King Lear set in modern times, with <a href="/wiki/Marcia_Gay_Harden" title="Marcia Gay Harden">Marcia Gay Harden</a> cast in the Lear role and <a href="/wiki/Leonor_Watling" title="Leonor Watling">Leonor Watling</a> as "the fool". Lear is an executive in a corporate empire instead of a literal one, being phased out of her position. The off-beat play (and its cast) is a major plot element of the movie.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] The American <a href="/wiki/Gesamtkunstwerk" title="Gesamtkunstwerk">musical drama</a> television series <a href="/wiki/Empire_(2015_TV_series)" title="Empire (2015 TV series)">Empire</a> is partially inspired by King Lear.<a href="#cite_note-TVG123114-172">[160]</a><a href="#cite_note-EWStack010715-173">[161]</a><a href="#cite_note-LeeDanielsDynasty-174">[162]</a> <a href="/wiki/Carl_Bessai" title="Carl Bessai">Carl Bessai</a> wrote and directed a modern adaptation of King Lear titled <a href="/wiki/The_Lears" title="The Lears">The Lears</a>. Released in 2017, the film starred <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Dern" title="Bruce Dern">Bruce Dern</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Michael_Hall" title="Anthony Michael Hall">Anthony Michael Hall</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sean_Astin" title="Sean Astin">Sean Astin</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcNary2016-175">[163]</a> On 28 May 2018, BBC Two broadcast <a href="/wiki/King_Lear_(2018_film)" title="King Lear (2018 film)">King Lear</a> starring <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Hopkins" title="Anthony Hopkins">Anthony Hopkins</a> in the title role and <a href="/wiki/Emma_Thompson" title="Emma Thompson">Emma Thompson</a> as Goneril. Directed by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Eyre" title="Richard Eyre">Richard Eyre</a>, the play featured a 21st-century setting. Hopkins, at the age of 80, was deemed ideal for the role and "at home with Lear's skin" by critic Sam Wollaston.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWollaston2018-176">[164]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Radio_and_audio">Radio and audio</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=King_Lear&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Radio and audio">edit</a>]</div> The first recording of the Argo Shakespeare for <a href="/wiki/Argo_Records_(UK)" title="Argo Records (UK)">Argo Records</a> was King Lear in 1957, directed and produced by George Rylands with <a href="/wiki/William_Devlin_(actor)" title="William Devlin (actor)">William Devlin</a> in the title role, <a href="/wiki/Jill_Balcon" title="Jill Balcon">Jill Balcon</a> as Goneril and <a href="/wiki/Prunella_Scales" title="Prunella Scales">Prunella Scales</a> as Cordelia.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEQuinn2017-177">[165]</a> The Shakespeare Recording Society recorded a full-length unabridged audio productions on LP in 1965 (SRS-M-232) directed by <a href="/wiki/Howard_Sackler" title="Howard Sackler">Howard Sackler</a>, with <a href="/wiki/Paul_Scofield" title="Paul Scofield">Paul Scofield</a> as Lear, <a href="/wiki/Cyril_Cusack" title="Cyril Cusack">Cyril Cusack</a> as Gloucester. <a href="/wiki/Robert_Stephens" title="Robert Stephens">Robert Stephens</a> as Edmund, <a href="/wiki/Rachel_Roberts_(actress)" title="Rachel Roberts (actress)">Rachel Roberts</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pamela_Brown_(actress)" title="Pamela Brown (actress)">Pamela Brown</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Stride" title="John Stride">John Stride</a>. King Lear was broadcast live on the BBC Third Programme on 29 September 1967, starring <a href="/wiki/John_Gielgud" title="John Gielgud">John Gielgud</a>, <a href="/wiki/Barbara_Jefford" title="Barbara Jefford">Barbara Jefford</a>, Barbara Bolton and <a href="/wiki/Virginia_McKenna" title="Virginia McKenna">Virginia McKenna</a> as Lear and his daughters.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERadio_Times1967-178">[166]</a> At <a href="/wiki/Abbey_Road_Studios" title="Abbey Road Studios">Abbey Road Studios</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Lennon" title="John Lennon">John Lennon</a> used a microphone held to a radio to overdub fragments of the play (Act IV, Scene 6)<a href="#cite_note-179">[167]</a> onto the song "<a href="/wiki/I_Am_the_Walrus" title="I Am the Walrus">I Am the Walrus</a>", which <a href="/wiki/The_Beatles" title="The Beatles">The Beatles</a> were recording that evening. The voices recorded were those of <a href="/wiki/Mark_Dignam" title="Mark Dignam">Mark Dignam</a> (Gloucester), <a href="/wiki/Philip_Guard" title="Philip Guard">Philip Guard</a> (Edgar) and John Bryning (Oswald).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEverett1999134–136-104">[97]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELewisohn1988128-105">[98]</a> On 10 April 1994, <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Branagh" title="Kenneth Branagh">Kenneth Branagh</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Renaissance_Theatre_Company" title="Renaissance Theatre Company">Renaissance Theatre Company</a> performed a radio adaptation directed by <a href="/wiki/Glyn_Dearman" title="Glyn Dearman">Glyn Dearman</a> starring Gielgud as Lear, with <a href="/wiki/Keith_Michell" title="Keith Michell">Keith Michell</a> as Kent, <a href="/wiki/Richard_Briers" title="Richard Briers">Richard Briers</a> as Gloucester, <a href="/wiki/Judi_Dench" title="Judi Dench">Dame Judi Dench</a> as Goneril, <a href="/wiki/Emma_Thompson" title="Emma Thompson">Emma Thompson</a> as Cordelia, <a href="/wiki/Eileen_Atkins" title="Eileen Atkins">Eileen Atkins</a> as Regan, <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Branagh" title="Kenneth Branagh">Kenneth Branagh</a> as Edmund, <a href="/wiki/John_Shrapnel" title="John Shrapnel">John Shrapnel</a> as Albany, <a href="/wiki/Robert_Stephens" title="Robert Stephens">Robert Stephens</a> as Cornwall, <a href="/wiki/Denis_Quilley" title="Denis Quilley">Denis Quilley</a> as Burgundy, <a href="/wiki/Derek_Jacobi" title="Derek Jacobi">Sir Derek Jacobi</a> as France, <a href="/wiki/Iain_Glen" title="Iain Glen">Iain Glen</a> as Edgar and <a href="/wiki/Michael_Williams_(actor)" title="Michael Williams (actor)">Michael Williams</a> as The Fool.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERadio_Times1994-180">[168]</a> <a href="/wiki/Naxos_AudioBooks" class="mw-redirect" title="Naxos AudioBooks">Naxos AudioBooks</a> released an audio production in 2002 with <a href="/wiki/Paul_Scofield" title="Paul Scofield">Paul Scofield</a> as Lear, <a href="/wiki/Alec_McCowen" title="Alec McCowen">Alec McCowen</a> as Gloucester, <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Branagh" title="Kenneth Branagh">Kenneth Branagh</a> as The Fool, and a full cast.<a href="#cite_note-181">[169]</a> It was nominated for an <a href="/wiki/Audie_Award_for_Audio_Drama" title="Audie Award for Audio Drama">Audie Award for Audio Drama</a> in 2003. In October 2017, <a href="/wiki/Big_Finish_Productions" title="Big Finish Productions">Big Finish Productions</a> released an audio adaptation full cast drama. Adapted by <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Pegg" title="Nicholas Pegg">Nicholas Pegg</a>. The full cast starred <a href="/wiki/David_Warner_(actor)" title="David Warner (actor)">David Warner</a> as the titular King Lear, <a href="/wiki/Lisa_Bowerman" title="Lisa Bowerman">Lisa Bowerman</a> as Regan, <a href="/wiki/Louise_Jameson" title="Louise Jameson">Louise Jameson</a> as Goneril, <a href="/wiki/Trevor_Cooper" title="Trevor Cooper">Trevor Cooper</a> as Oswald / Lear's Gentleman / Third Messenger, Raymond Coulthard (Edmund / Cornwall's Servant / Second Messenger / Second Gentleman), <a href="/wiki/Barnaby_Edwards" title="Barnaby Edwards">Barnaby Edwards</a> (The King of France / Old Man / Herald), Ray Fearon (The Duke of Cornwall), Mike Grady (The Fool), Gwilym Lee (Edgar / the Duke of Burgundy), Tony Millan (The Earl of Gloucester / First Messenger), Nicholas Pegg (The Duke of Albany / Gloucester's Servant / Curan) and Paul Shelley (The Earl of Kent)<a href="#cite_note-182">[170]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Opera">Opera</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=King_Lear&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Opera">edit</a>]</div> <a href="/wiki/Giuseppe_Verdi" title="Giuseppe Verdi">Giuseppe Verdi</a> commissioned a <a href="/wiki/Libretto" title="Libretto">libretto</a> for a proposed opera, <a href="/wiki/Re_Lear" title="Re Lear">Re Lear</a>, but no music was ever composed. German composer <a href="/wiki/Aribert_Reimann" title="Aribert Reimann">Aribert Reimann</a>'s opera <a href="/wiki/Lear_(opera)" title="Lear (opera)">Lear</a> premiered on 9 July 1978. Japanese composer's <a href="/wiki/Toshio_Hosokawa" title="Toshio Hosokawa">Toshio Hosokawa</a>'s opera <a href="/wiki/Vision_of_Lear" title="Vision of Lear">Vision of Lear</a> premiered on 19 April 1998 at the <a href="/wiki/Munich_Biennale" title="Munich Biennale">Munich Biennale</a>. Finnish composer <a href="/wiki/Aulis_Sallinen" title="Aulis Sallinen">Aulis Sallinen</a>'s opera <a href="/wiki/Kuningas_Lear" title="Kuningas Lear">Kuningas Lear</a> premiered on 15 September 2000.<a href="#cite_note-183">[171]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Novels">Novels</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=King_Lear&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Novels">edit</a>]</div> <a href="/wiki/Jane_Smiley" title="Jane Smiley">Jane Smiley</a>'s 1991 novel <a href="/wiki/A_Thousand_Acres" title="A Thousand Acres">A Thousand Acres</a>, winner of the <a href="/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Fiction" title="Pulitzer Prize for Fiction">Pulitzer Prize for Fiction</a>, is based on King Lear, but set in a farm in <a href="/wiki/Iowa" title="Iowa">Iowa</a> in 1979 and told from the perspective of the oldest daughter.<a href="#cite_note-184">[172]</a> The 2009 novel <a href="/wiki/Fool_(novel)" title="Fool (novel)">Fool</a> by <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Moore_(author)" title="Christopher Moore (author)">Christopher Moore</a> is a comedic retelling of King Lear from the perspective of the court jester.<a href="#cite_note-185">[173]</a> <a href="/wiki/Edward_St_Aubyn" title="Edward St Aubyn">Edward St Aubyn</a>'s 2017 novel <a href="/wiki/Dunbar_(novel)" title="Dunbar (novel)">Dunbar</a> is a modern retelling of King Lear, commissioned as part of the <a href="/wiki/Hogarth_Shakespeare" title="Hogarth Shakespeare">Hogarth Shakespeare</a> series.<a href="#cite_note-186">[174]</a> On 27 March 2018, Tessa Gratton published a high fantasy adaptation of King Lear titled The Queens of Innis Lear with Tor Books.<a href="#cite_note-187">[175]</a> <a href="/wiki/Preti_Taneja" title="Preti Taneja">Preti Taneja</a>’s 2018 novel We That Are Young is based on King Lear and set in India.<a href="#cite_note-188">[176]</a> The 2021 novel Learwife by J. R. Thorpe imagines the story of Lear's wife and the mother of his children, who is not present in the play.<a href="#cite_note-189">[177]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=King_Lear&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Illegitimacy_in_fiction" title="Illegitimacy in fiction">Illegitimacy in fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Creation_ex_materia" class="mw-redirect" title="Creation ex materia">Creation ex materia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespearean_fool" title="Shakespearean fool">Shakespearean fool</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fool_(novel)" title="Fool (novel)">Fool (novel)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Water_and_Salt" title="Water and Salt">Water and Salt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cap-o%27-Rushes" title="Cap-o'-Rushes">Cap-o'-Rushes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Goose-Girl_at_the_Well" title="The Goose-Girl at the Well">The Goose-Girl at the Well</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Dirty_Shepherdess" title="The Dirty Shepherdess">The Dirty Shepherdess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Yiddish_King_Lear" title="The Yiddish King Lear">The Yiddish King Lear</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes_and_references">Notes and references</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=King_Lear&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Notes and references">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Notes">Notes</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=King_Lear&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Notes">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-lower-alpha" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-11"><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a> "In other literary forms of the Middle Ages there occasionally appear oral tales. Geoffrey of Monmouth, in telling the story of King Lear, includes the incident of Love Like Salt (Type 923) ...". <a href="/wiki/Stith_Thompson" title="Stith Thompson">Thompson, Stith</a> (1977). The Folktale. University of California Press. p. 181. <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-520-03537-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-520-03537-2">0-520-03537-2</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a> The 1619 quarto is part of William Jaggard's so-called <a href="/wiki/False_Folio" title="False Folio">False Folio</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-73"><a href="#cite_ref-73">^</a> Jean I. Marsden cites Tate's Lear line 5.6.119.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsden200228-71">[69]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-75"><a href="#cite_ref-75">^</a> Quoted by Jean I. Marsden.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsden200230-74">[71]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-78"><a href="#cite_ref-78">^</a> Jean I. Marsden cites Gray's Inn Journal 12 January 1754.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsden200233-77">[73]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-96"><a href="#cite_ref-96">^</a> Quoted by <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Wells" title="Stanley Wells">Stanley Wells</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWells1997224-95">[90]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-99"><a href="#cite_ref-99">^</a> According to <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Harwood" title="Ronald Harwood">Ronald Harwood</a>, quoted by <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Wells" title="Stanley Wells">Stanley Wells</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWells1997229-98">[92]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-126"><a href="#cite_ref-126">^</a> This version appears on the British Film Institute video compilation Silent Shakespeare (1999).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcKernanTerris199484-125">[118]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-133"><a href="#cite_ref-133">^</a> The original title of this film in <a href="/wiki/Cyrillic_script" title="Cyrillic script">Cyrillic script</a> is Король Лир and the sources anglicise it with different spellings. Daniel Rosenthal gives it as Korol Lir,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERosenthal200779-131">[123]</a> while Douglas Brode gives it as Karol Lear.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrode2001210-132">[124]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-136"><a href="#cite_ref-136">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Pauline_Kael" title="Pauline Kael">Pauline Kael</a>'s <a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">New Yorker</a> review is quoted by Douglas Brode.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrode2001206,_209-135">[126]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-137"><a href="#cite_ref-137">^</a> Both quoted by Douglas Brode.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrode2001206-134">[125]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-143"><a href="#cite_ref-143">^</a> Quoted by Douglas Brode.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrode2001211-142">[131]</a> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="References">References</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=King_Lear&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 20em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.rsc.org.uk/shakespeare-learning-zone/king-lear/story/plot">"King Lear Plot Summary | Shakespeare Learning Zone | Royal Shakespeare Company"</a>. rsc.org.uk. 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title="Shakespearean problem play">Problem plays</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_late_romances" title="Shakespeare's late romances">Late romances</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henriad" title="Henriad">Henriad</a></li> <li>Characters <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Shakespearean_characters_(A%E2%80%93K)" title="List of Shakespearean characters (A–K)">A–K</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Shakespearean_characters_(L%E2%80%93Z)" title="List of Shakespearean characters (L–Z)">L–Z</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghost_character" title="Ghost character">Ghost character</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chronology_of_Shakespeare%27s_plays" title="Chronology of Shakespeare's plays">Chronology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_in_performance" title="Shakespeare in performance">Performances</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Shakespearean_settings" title="List of Shakespearean settings">Settings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Shakespearean_scenes" title="List of 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href="/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_sonnets" title="Shakespeare's sonnets">Shakespeare's sonnets</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Petrarch%27s_and_Shakespeare%27s_sonnets" title="Petrarch's and Shakespeare's sonnets">comparison to Petrarch</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Lover%27s_Complaint" title="A Lover's Complaint">A Lover's Complaint</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Phoenix_and_the_Turtle" title="The Phoenix and the Turtle">The Phoenix and the Turtle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Rape_of_Lucrece" title="The Rape of Lucrece">The Rape of Lucrece</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Venus_and_Adonis_(Shakespeare_poem)" title="Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare poem)">Venus and Adonis</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_apocrypha" title="Shakespeare apocrypha">Apocrypha</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Plays</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arden_of_Faversham" title="Arden of Faversham">Arden of Faversham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Birth_of_Merlin" title="The Birth of Merlin">The Birth of Merlin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_History_of_Cardenio" title="The History of Cardenio">Cardenio</a> ✻†</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Double_Falsehood" title="Double Falsehood">Double Falsehood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Ironside_(play)" title="Edmund Ironside (play)">Edmund Ironside</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fair_Em" title="Fair Em">Fair Em</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Locrine" title="Locrine">Locrine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_London_Prodigal" title="The London Prodigal">The London Prodigal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Love%27s_Labour%27s_Won" title="Love's Labour's Won">Love's Labour's Won</a> †</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Merry_Devil_of_Edmonton" title="The Merry Devil of Edmonton">The Merry Devil of Edmonton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mucedorus" title="Mucedorus">Mucedorus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Puritan" title="The Puritan">The Puritan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Second_Maiden%27s_Tragedy" title="The Second Maiden's Tragedy">The Second Maiden's Tragedy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sejanus_His_Fall" title="Sejanus His Fall">Sejanus His Fall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_John_Oldcastle" title="Sir John Oldcastle">Sir John Oldcastle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Thomas_More_(play)" title="Sir Thomas More (play)">Sir Thomas More</a> ✻</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Spanish_Tragedy" title="The Spanish Tragedy">The Spanish Tragedy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Lord_Cromwell" title="Thomas Lord Cromwell">Thomas Lord Cromwell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_of_Woodstock_(play)" title="Thomas of Woodstock (play)">Thomas of Woodstock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ur-Hamlet" title="Ur-Hamlet">Ur-Hamlet</a> †</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vortigern_and_Rowena" title="Vortigern and Rowena">Vortigern and Rowena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Yorkshire_Tragedy" title="A Yorkshire Tragedy">A Yorkshire Tragedy</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Poems</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Passionate_Pilgrim" title="The Passionate Pilgrim">The Passionate Pilgrim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/To_the_Queen" title="To the Queen">To the Queen</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Life_of_William_Shakespeare" title="Life of William Shakespeare">Life</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_works_by_William_Shakespeare" title="List of works by William Shakespeare">works</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_Birthplace" title="Shakespeare's Birthplace">Birthplace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_works_by_William_Shakespeare" title="List of works by William Shakespeare">Bibliography</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Complete_Works_of_Shakespeare" title="Complete Works of Shakespeare">Complete Works</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_translations_of_works_by_William_Shakespeare" title="List of translations of works by William Shakespeare">Translations</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_coat_of_arms" title="Shakespeare coat of arms">Coat of arms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare%27s_collaborations" title="William Shakespeare's collaborations">Collaborations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_editors" title="Shakespeare's editors">Editors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/English_Renaissance_theatre" title="English Renaissance theatre">English Renaissance theatre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Globe_Theatre" title="Globe Theatre">Globe Theatre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_handwriting" title="Shakespeare's handwriting">Handwriting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lord_Chamberlain%27s_Men" title="Lord Chamberlain's Men">Lord Chamberlain's Men</a>/<a href="/wiki/King%27s_Men_(playing_company)" title="King's Men (playing company)">King's Men</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Theatre" title="The Theatre">The Theatre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Curtain_Theatre" title="Curtain Theatre">Curtain Theatre</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_in_the_plays_of_William_Shakespeare" title="Music in the plays of William Shakespeare">Music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Place" title="New Place">New Place</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portraits_of_Shakespeare" title="Portraits of Shakespeare">Portraits</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religious_views_of_William_Shakespeare" title="Religious views of William Shakespeare">Religious views</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sexuality_of_William_Shakespeare" title="Sexuality of William Shakespeare">Sexuality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spelling_of_Shakespeare%27s_name" title="Spelling of Shakespeare's name">Spelling of his name</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stratford-upon-Avon" title="Stratford-upon-Avon">Stratford-upon-Avon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_writing_style" title="Shakespeare's writing style">Style</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_will" title="Shakespeare's will">Will</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_Holy_Trinity,_Stratford-upon-Avon" title="Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon">Grave</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Reputation_of_William_Shakespeare" title="Reputation of William Shakespeare">Legacy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_attribution_studies" title="Shakespeare attribution studies">Attribution studies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_authorship_question" title="Shakespeare authorship question">Authorship question</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bardolatry" title="Bardolatry">Bardolatry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_festival" title="Shakespeare festival">Festivals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_garden" title="Shakespeare garden">Gardens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Influence_of_William_Shakespeare" title="Influence of William Shakespeare">Influence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Memorials_to_William_Shakespeare" title="Memorials to William Shakespeare">Memorials</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_William_Shakespeare_screen_adaptations" title="List of William Shakespeare screen adaptations">Screen adaptations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_and_Star_Trek" title="Shakespeare and Star Trek">Shakespeare and Star Trek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_influence_on_Tolkien" title="Shakespeare's influence on Tolkien">Shakespeare's influence on Tolkien</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_works_titled_after_Shakespeare" title="List of works titled after Shakespeare">Works titled after Shakespeare</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Institutions" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Institutions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Folger_Shakespeare_Library" title="Folger Shakespeare Library">Folger Shakespeare Library</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_Quarterly" title="Shakespeare Quarterly">Shakespeare Quarterly</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Shakespeare_Company" title="Royal Shakespeare Company">Royal Shakespeare Company</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Shakespeare_Theatre" title="Royal Shakespeare Theatre">Royal Shakespeare Theatre</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_Birthplace_Trust" title="Shakespeare Birthplace Trust">Shakespeare Birthplace Trust</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_Globe" title="Shakespeare's Globe">Shakespeare's Globe</a> (replica)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_Institute" title="Shakespeare Institute">Shakespeare Institute</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Family</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anne_Hathaway_(wife_of_Shakespeare)" title="Anne Hathaway (wife of Shakespeare)">Anne Hathaway</a> (wife)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Susanna_Hall" title="Susanna Hall">Susanna Hall</a> (daughter)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamnet_Shakespeare" title="Hamnet Shakespeare">Hamnet Shakespeare</a> (son)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judith_Quiney" title="Judith Quiney">Judith Quiney</a> (daughter)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Barnard" title="Elizabeth Barnard">Elizabeth Barnard</a> (granddaughter)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Shakespeare" title="John Shakespeare">John Shakespeare</a> (father)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Shakespeare" title="Mary Shakespeare">Mary Arden</a> (mother)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Shakespeare" title="Gilbert Shakespeare">Gilbert Shakespeare</a> (brother)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joan_Shakespeare" title="Joan Shakespeare">Joan Shakespeare</a> (sister)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Shakespeare" title="Edmund Shakespeare">Edmund Shakespeare</a> (brother)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Shakespeare" title="Richard Shakespeare">Richard Shakespeare</a> (grandfather)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Hall_(physician)" title="John Hall (physician)">John Hall</a> (son-in-law)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Quiney" title="Thomas Quiney">Thomas Quiney</a> (son-in-law)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3"><div> <ul><li>✻ <a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare%27s_collaborations" title="William Shakespeare's collaborations">Shakespeare and other authors</a></li> <li>† Lost</li></ul> <ul><li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/16px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/23px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/31px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185" /> <a href="/wiki/Category:William_Shakespeare" title="Category:William Shakespeare">Category</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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href="/wiki/Shakespearean_fool" title="Shakespearean fool">The Fool</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Sources">Sources</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Historia_Regum_Britanniae" title="Historia Regum Britanniae">Historia Regum Britanniae</a> (1136)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Mirror_for_Magistrates" title="The Mirror for Magistrates">The Mirror for Magistrates</a> (1555)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holinshed%27s_Chronicles" title="Holinshed's Chronicles">Holinshed's Chronicles</a> (1577)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/King_Leir" title="King Leir">King Leir</a> (1594)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Water_and_Salt" title="Water and Salt">Water and Salt</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ll%C5%B7r" title="Llŷr">Llŷr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leir_of_Britain" title="Leir of Britain">Leir of Britain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cordelia_of_Britain" title="Cordelia of Britain">Cordelia of Britain</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Adaptations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Plays</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_History_of_King_Lear" title="The History of King Lear">The History of King Lear</a> (1681)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Yiddish_King_Lear" title="The Yiddish King Lear">The Yiddish King Lear</a> (1892)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Safed_Khoon" title="Safed Khoon">Safed Khoon</a> (1907)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lear_(play)" title="Lear (play)">Lear</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/King_Lear_(Williamson_play)" title="King Lear (Williamson play)">King Lear</a> (1978)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Novels</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/La_Terre" title="La Terre">La Terre</a> (1887)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Thousand_Acres" title="A Thousand Acres">A Thousand Acres</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fool_(novel)" title="Fool (novel)">Fool</a> (2009)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Operas</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Re_Lear" title="Re Lear">Re Lear</a> (Libretto only) (1896)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lear_(opera)" title="Lear (opera)">Lear</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vision_of_Lear" title="Vision of Lear">Vision of Lear</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kuningas_Lear" title="Kuningas Lear">Kuningas Lear</a> (2000)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Films</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/King_Lear_(1910_film)" title="King Lear (1910 film)">King Lear</a> (1910)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/King_Lear_(1916_film)" title="King Lear (1916 film)">King Lear</a> (1916)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gunasundari_Katha" title="Gunasundari Katha">Gunasundari Katha</a> (1949)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/King_Lear_(1971_USSR_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="King Lear (1971 USSR film)">King Lear</a> (1971 USSR)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/King_Lear_(1971_British_film)" title="King Lear (1971 British film)">King Lear</a> (1971 UK)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ran_(film)" title="Ran (film)">Ran</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/King_Lear_(1987_film)" title="King Lear (1987 film)">King Lear</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Thousand_Acres_(film)" title="A Thousand Acres (film)">A Thousand Acres</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gypsy_Lore" title="Gypsy Lore">Gypsy Lore</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/King_Lear_(1999_film)" title="King Lear (1999 film)">King Lear</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/My_Kingdom_(film)" title="My Kingdom (film)">My Kingdom</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lear_Rex" title="Lear Rex">Lear Rex</a> (TBA)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Television</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/King_Lear_(1953_film)" title="King Lear (1953 film)">King Lear</a> (1953)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/BBC_Television_Shakespeare#King_Lear" title="BBC Television Shakespeare">BBC Television Shakespeare</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/King_Lear_(1983_TV_programme)" title="King Lear (1983 TV programme)">King Lear</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/King_of_Texas" title="King of Texas">King of Texas</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Generation_(film)" title="Second Generation (film)">Second Generation</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/King_Lear_(2008_film)" title="King Lear (2008 film)">King Lear</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/King_Lear_(2018_film)" title="King Lear (2018 film)">King Lear</a> (2018)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Story_within_a_story" title="Story within a story">Story within a story</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Dresser" title="The Dresser">The Dresser</a> (1980 play)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Dresser_(1983_film)" title="The Dresser (1983 film)">The Dresser</a> (1983 film)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Dresser_(2015_film)" title="The Dresser (2015 film)">The Dresser</a> (2015 film)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tiriel_(poem)" title="Tiriel (poem)">Tiriel</a> (1789, poem)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Prince_of_the_Pagodas" title="The Prince of the Pagodas">The Prince of the Pagodas</a> (1957, ballet)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Tragedy_of_King_Lear_(screenplay)" title="The Tragedy of King Lear (screenplay)">The Tragedy of King Lear (screenplay)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link 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