The tragedy of King Lear.

Selections from Nahum Tate's King Lear.

Sources: From The true chronicle history of King Leir. From Holinshed's Chronicles. From Sidney's Arcadia.

Selected criticism: Summary note to King Lear, by S. Johnson.

From On Shakespeare's tragedies, by C. Lamb.

From Characters of Shakespeare's plays, by W. Hazlitt.

From Shakespearean tragedy, by A.C. Bradley.

King Lear and the comedy of the grotesque, by G.W. Knight.

From The Gutenberg galaxy, by M. McLuhan.

King Lear or Endgame, by J. Kott.

From King Lear in our time, by M. Mack.

King Lear and the meaning of chaos, by H. Skulsky.

Selected bibliography (pages 233-235).

The tragedy of King Lear

Appendix

The text

Date of the composition

The source of the plot

Duration of the action

Insanity

English criticisms

Actors

Costume

German criticisms

Nahum Tate's version.