The chronicle history of the life and death of King Lear and his three daughters
By: ed. by William Lyon Phelps.
Contributors: Phelps, William Lyon, 1865-1943.
Series: The Yale Shakespeare
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1917
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
Subjects: Lear, King (Legendary character) -- Drama
Genres: Drama.
Description: Lear, the aging King of Britain, has chosen to lay aside the care of kingship and divide his kingdom between his three daughters. Their share is to be determined by their love for him. Two daughters speak with grandiose expressions of love while the third daughter finds nothing to say. The courts disinherit the third daughter, Cordelia. Much treachery, murder, and deceit ensued and Lear and Cordelia are captured and sentenced to death.
Notes: "Suggestions for collateral reading" : p.[147].
Contains facsimile reproduction of the "the title-page of the Elizabethan club copy of the spurious ʻ1608ʼ quarto".