Question: King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare, which term designation is given to most tragedies, written by playwright William Shakespeare?
Context: King Lear (Italian: "Re Lear" ) is a 1910 Italian silent historical drama film directed by Gerolamo Lo Savio and starring Ermete Novelli, Francesca Bertini and Olga Giannini Novelli.  It is an adaptation of William Shakespeare's "King Lear". The Tragedy of King Lear is an unpublished screenplay by Harold Pinter.  It is an adaptation of William Shakespeare's "King Lear" and was commissioned by actor and director Tim Roth with backing from Film Four.  Pinter completed the screenplay on 31 March 2000, but as of 2017 it has not yet been filmed.  It is one of only three screenplays that Pinter adapted from another dramatist's play; the others being his screenplay adaptation of "Butley", by his good friend Simon Gray, and "Sleuth", originally written for the stage by Anthony Shaffer. King Lear is a 1987 film directed by Jean-Luc Godard, an adaptation of Shakespeare's play in the style of experimental French New Wave cinema.  The script was primarily by Peter Sellars and Tom Luddy, and was originally assigned to Norman Mailer.  It is not a typical cinematic adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy "King Lear", although some lines from the play are used in the film.  Only three characters – Lear, Cordelia and Edgar – are common to both, and only Act I, scene 1 is given a conventional cinematic treatment in that two or three people actually engage in relatively meaningful dialogue. Cordelia ( ) is the innermost known moon of Uranus.  It was discovered from the images taken by "Voyager 2" on January 20, 1986, and was given the temporary designation S/1986 U 7.  It was not detected again until the Hubble Space Telescope observed it in 1997.  Cordelia takes its name from the youngest daughter of Lear in William Shakespeare's "King Lear."  It is also designated Uranus VI. Shakespearean tragedy is the designation given to most tragedies written by playwright William Shakespeare.  Many of his history plays share the qualifiers of a Shakespearean tragedy, but because they are based on real figures throughout the History of England, they were classified as "histories" in the First Folio.  The Roman tragedies—"Julius Caesar", "Antony and Cleopatra" and "Coriolanus"—are also based on historical figures, but because their source stories were foreign and ancient they are almost always classified as tragedies rather than histories.  Shakespeare's romances (tragicomic plays) were written late in his career and published originally as either tragedy or comedy.  They share some elements of tragedy featuring a high status central character but end happily like Shakespearean comedies.  Several hundred years after Shakespeare's death, scholar F.S. Boas also coined a fifth category, the "problem play," for plays that don't fit neatly into a single classification because of their subject matter, setting, or ending.  The classifications of certain Shakespeare plays are still debated among scholars. Cordelia is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's tragic play, "King Lear".  She is the youngest of King Lear's three daughters, and his favourite.  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 refuses and is banished for the majority of the play. King Lear is a 1999 adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same name.  The film stars Brian Blessed (who also co-directed the film, along with Tony Rotherham) in the title role.  Apart from Peter Brook's "King Lear" in 1971, it is the only other feature length film adaptation to preserve Shakespeare's verse.  Yvonne Griggs, in "Shakespeare's King Lear: A close study of the relationship between text and film" (2009), characterised it as "a very stilted costume drama". 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. Ran (乱, Japanese for "chaos") is a 1985 period tragedy directed, edited and co-written by Akira Kurosawa as an adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy "King Lear".  It is a Japanese-French venture produced by Herald Ace, Nippon Herald Films and Greenwich Film Productions.  The film stars Tatsuya Nakadai as Hidetora Ichimonji, an aging "Sengoku"-era warlord who decides to abdicate as ruler in favor of his three sons.  The film is an adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy "King Lear", and includes segments based on legends of the "daimyō" Mōri Motonari. King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare.  It depicts the gradual descent into madness of the title character, after he disposes of his kingdom giving bequests to two of his three daughters based on their flattery of him, bringing tragic consequences for all.  Derived from the legend of Leir of Britain, a mythological pre-Roman Celtic king, the play has been widely adapted for the stage and motion pictures, with the title role coveted by many of the world's most accomplished actors.
Answer: Shakespearean tragedy