- King Lear
- Edited by
- Michael Best
- Pervez Rizvi
About this Edition
- Internet Shakespeare Editions
- University of Victoria, BC, Canada
- Published 2005, updated 2012-02-29
Table of contents
Editor's introduction
Texts of this edition
- King Lear (Folio 1, 1623)
- King Lear (Quarto 1, 1608)
- King Lear (Quarto 2, 1619)
- King Lear (Modern, Selection from 1.1, Folio)
- King Lear (Modern, Selection from 1-1, Quarto)
- King Lear (Modern, Selection from 1.4, Folio)
- King Lear (Modern, Selection from 1.4, Quarto)
- King Lear (Modern, Selection from 2.4, Folio)
- King Lear (Modern, Selection from 2.4, Quarto)
- King Lear (Modern, Selection from 5.3, Folio)
- King Lear (Modern, Selection from 5.3, Quarto)
Supplementary and related materials
Statistics about the text
Explore the character scrolls as used by
Shakespeare's actors, find out which actors appear in each scene, and more.
Facsimiles
- First Folio (1623) from Brandeis University Library
- First Folio (1623) from State Library of New South Wales
- Second Folio (1632) from State Library of New South Wales
- Third Folio (1664) from State Library of New South Wales
- Fourth Folio (1685) from State Library of New South Wales
Related Life And Times pages
- King Lear
- Staging Lear
- Violence and madness
- A division of the kingdom
- Disorder and the stars
- Kings and clowns
Performances
- King Lear (2011, Shakespeare by the Sea - Los Angeles, USA)
- King Lear (2010, The Bell Shakespeare Company, Australia)
- King Lear (2008, Shakespeare's Globe, UK)
- King Lear (2008, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, USA)
- King Lear (2008, Nebraska Shakespeare Festival, USA)
- King Lear (2008, Trevor Nunn, UK)
- chamber lear (2008, CHAMBERshakespearecompany, Scotland)
- König Lear (2007, Burgtheater, Austria)
- King Lear (2006, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, USA)
- King Lear (2005, Utah Shakespearean Festival, USA)
- King Lear (2005, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, USA)
- LEAR: Ovvero tutto su mio padre (2004, Shakespeare Festival im Globe Neuss, Germany)
- King Lear (2003, Shakespeare and Company, USA)
- King Of Texas (2002, Uli Edel, USA)
- Shakespeare's World Cup (2002, Upstart Crow Theatre Group, Canada)
- King Lear (2001, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, USA)
- Lear '87 Archive (2001, Jill Godmilow, USA)
- My Kingdom (2001, Don Boyd, International)
- Shakespeare Tragedies: Othello, Macbeth, King Lear (2000, USA)
- The King Is Alive (2000, Kristian Levring, International)
- 61 more performances…
Performance materials
- flyer artifacts (1 collection)
- graphic artifacts (1 artifact)
- magazine artifacts (4 collections)
- page artifacts (16 artifacts)
- pamphlet artifacts (4 collections, 9 artifacts)
- photograph artifacts (2 artifacts)
- poster artifacts (3 artifacts)
- press release artifacts (2 artifacts)
- production still artifacts (55 artifacts)
- program artifacts (21 collections)
- review artifacts (1 artifact)