The true chronicle history of King Leir and his three daughters, Gonorill, Ragan, and Cordella
Contributors: Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592; Kyd, Thomas, 1558-1594; Lodge, Thomas, 1558?-1625
Series: Three centuries of drama; Three centuries of English and American plays, 1500-1830
Publisher: Printed by Simon Stafford for John Wright
Published: 1605
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616. -- Sources
Other titles: King Leir and his three daughters, Gonorill, Ragan, and Cordella
Work titles: King Leir
Notes: The anonymous play on which Shakespeare based his King Lear

Has been variously attributed to Kyd, Lodge, Marlowe, Greene, and Peele, the consensus of opinion dividing the authorship jointly between Greene, Kyd, and Lodge; cf. NUC pre-1956

"As it hath bene divers and sundry times lately acted."

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