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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]
King Lear provides a basis for "the primary enactment of psychic breakdown in English literary history". [36] The play begins with Lear's "near-fairytale narcissism". [37] Given the absence of legitimate mothers in King Lear, Coppélia Kahn [38] provides a psychoanalytic interpretation of the "maternal subtext" found in the play. According to ...
Leir was a legendary king of the Britons whose story was recounted by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his pseudohistorical 12th-century History of the Kings of Britain. [1] According to Geoffrey's genealogy of the British dynasty, Leir reigned around the 8th century BC, around the time of the founding of Rome.
It was a large, comprehensive description of British history published in three volumes (England, Scotland and Ireland). The Chronicles have been a source of interest because of their extensive links to Shakespearean history, as well as King Lear, Macbeth and Cymbeline.
Kean was the first to restore the tragic ending to Shakespeare's King Lear, which since 1681 had been replaced on stage by Nahum Tate's happy ending adaptation The History of King Lear. Kean had previously acted Tate's Lear, but told his wife that the London audience "have no notion of what I can do till they see me over the dead body of Cordelia."
Ukrainians displaced by war find new purpose in Shakespeare's play of love, loss and madness, bringing their version to the bard's hometown.
Norman Lear -- legendary Emmy-winning writer, producer and TV creator of All in the Family, The Jeffersons, One Day at a Time, Good Times, and numerous hit sitcoms -- has died, ET has confirmed ...
Norman Lear, who died Dec. 5, 2023, left behind a legacy of beloved TV shows like "All in the Family," "The Jeffersons," "Good Times" and "Sanford and Son." Norman Lear was a force behind several ...