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Koning Lear, treurspel: M.G. de Cambon S-'Gravenhague: 1786 458827860 Early Dutch Books Online: Estonian Kuningas Lear: draama viies aktis: Mihkel Jürna: Tartu: 1926 77979828 Galician Rei Lear: Eduardo Alonso, Cándido Pazó Vigo: 1998 8483023180 317393647 Macbeth: Afrikaans Macbeth: Eitemal (Professor W. J. du P. Erlank) Cape Town: 1965 ...
King Lear, George Frederick Bensell. The Tragedy of King Lear, often shortened to King Lear, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It is loosely based on the mythological Leir of Britain. King Lear, in preparation for his old age, divides his power and land between his daughters Goneril and Regan, who pay homage to gain favour, feigning ...
Othello is widely considered one of Shakespeare's greatest works and is usually classified among his major tragedies alongside Macbeth, King Lear, and Hamlet. Unpublished in the author's life, the play survives in one quarto edition from 1622 and in the First Folio.
18th-century depiction of King Lear mourning over his daughter Cordelia. In the essay on King Lear, which he entitled simply "Lear", Hazlitt makes no references to the performances of any actors. In fact, here he fully agrees with Lamb that King Lear, like Hamlet, cannot be adequately presented on stage. No actors, he felt, could do justice to ...
Christopher Moore combines Othello and The Merchant of Venice in his 2014 comic novel The Serpent of Venice, in which he makes Portia (from The Merchant of Venice) and Desdemona (from Othello) sisters. All of the characters come from those two plays with the exception of Pocket, the Fool, who comes from Moore's earlier novel based on King Lear.
King Lear: 1603–1606 [5] [6] Published in quarto in 1608 [7] First recorded performance: 26 December 1606, before King James I at the Whitehall Palace. [7] Summary An aged king divides his kingdom between two of his daughters, Regan and Goneril, and casts the youngest, Cordelia, out of his Kingdom for disloyalty.
Cordelia is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's tragic play King Lear.Cordelia is the youngest of King Lear's three daughters and his favorite. After her elderly father offers her the opportunity to profess her love to him in return for one-third of the land in his kingdom, she replies that she loves him "according to her bond" and she is punished for the majority of the play.
Facsimile of the first edition, 1681. The History of King Lear is an adaptation by Nahum Tate of William Shakespeare's King Lear.It first appeared in 1681, some seventy-five years after Shakespeare's version, and is believed to have replaced Shakespeare's version on the English stage in whole or in part until 1838. [1]