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  2. King Lear - Wikipedia

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    The first page of King Lear, printed in the Second Folio of 1632. The modern text of King Lear derives from three sources: two quartos, one published in 1608 (Q 1) and the other in 1619 (Q 2), [b] and the version in the First Folio of 1623 (F 1). Q1 has "many errors and muddles". [22] Q2 was based on Q1. It introduced corrections and new errors ...

  3. List of translations of works by William Shakespeare

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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 ...

  4. Shakespearean history - Wikipedia

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    The source for most of the English history plays, as well as for Macbeth and King Lear, is the well-known Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of English history. The source for the Roman history plays is Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Compared Together, in the translation made by Sir Thomas North in 1579. Shakespeare's historical ...

  5. Henry VI, Part 3 - Wikipedia

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    First page of The third Part of Henry the Sixt, with the death of the Duke of Yorke from the First Folio (1623). Henry VI, Part 3 (often written as 3 Henry VI) is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1591 and set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England.

  6. List of translators of William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... This page was last edited on 19 April 2024, at 12:16 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...

  7. Shakespeare's influence on Tolkien - Wikipedia

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    Tolkien disapproved in particular of Shakespeare's devaluation of elves, and was deeply disappointed by the prosaic explanation of how Birnam Wood came to Dunsinane Hill in Macbeth. Tolkien was influenced especially by Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream, and he used King Lear for "issues of kingship, madness, and succession". [1]

  8. A Ukrainian 'King Lear' comes to Shakespeare's hometown ... - AOL

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    Ahnesa Tsvilodub performs as Regan during a rehearsal of "King Lear" at the Other Place theater in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, on June 14, 2024. Friday. Andrii Khomik as King Lear and Olena ...

  9. The History of King Lear - Wikipedia

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    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]