Texts on the Cambridge Lear

• The basic text (the "Finder" text): a copy-text conflated edition of Lear edited by Jay Halio and Christie Carson;
• The notes to the Quarto text, edited by Jay Halio;
• The notes to the Plays in Performance King Lear edited by Jacky Bratton;
• Facsimiles of both Quarto and Folio;
• An archive of later adaptations:
• • The History of King Lear by Nahum Tate, 1681;
  • King Lear -- A Tragedy edited by Nicholas Rowe, 1709;
  • David Garrick's text as recorded by John Bell in 1774;
  • William Charles Macready's text of 1838 published by Lacy in 1857; and
  • Charles Kean's text, 1858