King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare.It is based on the mythological Leir of Britain. King Lear, in preparation for his old age, divides ...
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his power and land between two of his daughters. He becomes destitute and insane and a proscribed crux of political machinations. The first known performance of any version of Shakespeare´s play was on Saint Stephen´s Day in 1606. The three extant publications from which modern editors derive their texts are the 1608 quarto (Q1) and the 1619 quarto (Q2, unofficial and based on Q1) and the 1623 First Folio. The quarto versions differ significantly from the folio version.
