• Edition: King Lear

King Lear (Quarto): List of Characters

• Introduction
  2. Textual Introduction
• Texts of this edition
  1. King Lear (Folio, 1623)
  3. Modern
  5. Extended modern
  7. Old-spelling transcription
  8. King Lear (Quarto 1, 1608)
  10. Modern
  12. Extended modern
  14. Old-spelling transcription
  15. King Lear (Quarto 2, 1619)
  17. Old-spelling transcription
• Contextual materials
  1. Sources for the Lear story
  3. Holinshed on King Lear
  5. The History of King Leir
  7. Albion's England (Selection)
  9. Hardyng's Chronicle (Selection)
  11. Kings of Britain
  13. Chronicles of England
  15. Faerie Queene
  17. The Mirror for Magistrates
  18. Sources for the Gloucester plot
  20. The Arcadia
  22. A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures
  23. Literary, political, and social contexts
  25. Aristotle on tragedy
  27. The Book of Job (Selections)
  29. The Monk's Tale (Selections)
  31. The Defense of Poetry
  33. The First Blast of the Trumpet
  35. Basilicon Doron
  37. On Bastards
  39. On Aging
  40. King Lear's afterlife
  42. King Lear (Adapted by Nahum Tate)
• Facsimiles
  • King Lear, Quarto 1
    • Halliwell-Phillipps (Alternate)
    • Halliwell-Phillipps (Perfect)
  • King Lear, Quarto 2
  • First Folio
    • Brandeis University
    • New South Wales
  • Second Folio
  • Third Folio
  • Fourth Folio
  • Works Rowe, Vol.5
  • Works Pope, Vol.3
  • Works Theobald, Vol.5