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	King Lear - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		King Lear is generally regarded as one of William Shakespeare's greatest tragedies.
		The story of King Lear (or Leir) was familiar to the average Elizabethan theatre goer (as were many of Shakespeare's sources) and any discrepancies between versions would have been immediately apparent.
		King Lear was at first unsuccessful on the Restoration stage, and it was only with Nahum Tate's happy-ending version of 1681 that it became part of the repertory.
	open-encyclopedia.com /King_Lear (2156 words)

	Enjoying "King Lear" by William Shakespeare
		King Lear goes ballistic and disinherits her, and banishes the Earl of Kent for speaking in her defense.
		King Lear also calls on "nature" as a goddess, to punish Goneril with infertility, or else give her a baby which grows up to hate her ("a thwart disnatured torment").
		Regan tells King Lear that "nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine." In other words, you're getting too old to make your own decisions, and Regan's behavior is only that of a good, natural daughter.
	www.pathguy.com /kinglear.htm (7170 words)

	King_Lear (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It is believed to have been written in 1605 and is based on the legend of Leir of Britain, a king of pre-Roman Britain.
		Lear, in a fit of pique, divides her share of the kingdom between Goneril and Regan, and Cordelia is banished.
		King Leir was a semi-legendary King of the Britons as accounted by Geoffrey of Monmouth.
	www.startrekconvention.com /search.php?title=King_Lear (2835 words)

	On Sources of King Lear
		The earliest reference to King Lear is probably from, "an entry in the Stationers’ Register on 26 November 1607, for Nathaniel Butter and John Busby.
		While the story of a king dividing his kingdom amongst his children was a popular story around Shakespeare’s time, the most probable sources for Shakespeare’s play are the earlier Leir; a recent (1603) factual account of Cordell Annesley, who defended her father’s sanity similarly to King Lear; and Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene.
		Leir is the most obviously similar work to that of Lear, for the names of the characters are nearly identical, and the plot is largely similar except in its ending.
	www.poetsforum.com /papers/444_1.html (4003 words)

	King Lear
		In King Lear, the County of Kent and the Earl of Kent occupy liminal geographic and psychological areas, mirroring the anomalous position of Kent in the history of English inheritance practices.
		King Lear dramatizes Gaius' categories of "Things," as well as their jurisdiction: Since the problems in the story have arisen from the distribution of property, they are therefore outside of the jurisdiction of divine law, and the frequent prayers to various gods go unanswered.
		King Lear dramatizes these two points in the first scene: Cordelia refuses to make the public proclamation of love which would fulfill the condition of her "dower," and Lear gives away his land but insists upon retaining "the name, and all th' addition to a king,"
	tarlton.law.utexas.edu /lpop/etext/okla/reilly26.htm (7025 words)

	A Guide to King Lear - Page 6
		Gloucester offers to help his destitute king, but his kindness is reported by Edmund as treason and, as punishment, Regan's husband blinds the old man. In doing so, however, he is himself set upon by a servant and fatally wounded.
		Later the mistreatment of Leir by Gonorilla, Regan, and their husbands causes Leir to flee to France where he seeks aid from Cordeilla, "whom before time he hated." Cordeilla and her husband lead an army into Britain and restore Leir to the throne.
		Ultimately the legitimate son prevails against his bastard brother and is crowned king by his father who then dies of a broken heart.
	www.hofstra.edu /Academics/HCLAS/DD/DD_Shakes50_lsg_pg6.cfm (946 words)

	1450 Bladud hafde enne sune
		1600 and seide to is bornen þat wes þe bisie king.
		1724 Wel oft wes Leir wa and neuere wurs þanne þa.
		1821 and seide þat Leir kin icume wes to londen.
	www.bu.edu /english/levine/layamonslear.htm (3550 words)

	King Leir -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		King Leir is an anonymous (A person who lived during the reign of Elizabeth I) Elizabethan play published in 1605 but believed to have been written before 1594.
		It has been variously attributed to (English dramatist (1558-1594)) Thomas Kyd and (Click link for more info and facts about Robert Greene) Robert Greene.
		The "source" of (English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616)) William Shakespeare's play, (The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters) King Lear, it differs in having a happy ending.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/ki/king_leir.htm (156 words)

	King Leir- SOURCES
		Now it fell out about this time that Aganippus, King of the Franks, hearing report of Cordelia's beauty, forthwith dispatched his envoys to the King, beseeching him that Cordelia might be entrusted to their charge as his bride whom he would marry with due rite of the wedding torch.
		But her father, still persisting in his wrath, made answer that right willingly would he give her, but that needs must it be without land or fee, seeing that he had shared is kingdom along with all his gold and silver betwixt Cordelia's sisters Goneril and Regan.
		Here, at first, he was received with honour, but a year had not passed before discord again arose betwixt those of the King's household and those of the Duke's, inasmuch as that Regan, waxing indignant, ordered her father to dismiss all his company save five knights only to do him service.
	www.elizabethanauthors.com /king-leir-1605-sources.htm (1579 words)

	King Lear FAQ
		In 1547 King Henry VIII granted Bethlehem Hospital, known by now as Bedlam, to the city of London as an asylum for the mentally deranged.
		By the time Shakespeare wrote "King Lear", Bedlam had a solid reputation as a brutal, inhuman prison.
		The only reference to Lear's wife in the play is in Act 2 ("I would divorce me from thy mother's tomb" (2.4.130)) and so, although we know she is dead, we do not know the circumstances surrounding her death.
	www.shakespeare-online.com /faq/learfaq.html (348 words)

	Biography Biographies Essays - Essay on William Shakespeare's Plagiarism of King Lear
		The story of King Lear (or as it started, King Leir) is first seen in literature in the year 1135, contained in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae.
		Other authors placed King Leir into their stories including; John Higgins in A Mirror for Magistrates (1574), by Warner in Albion's England (1586), by Holinshed in The Second Book of the Historie of England (1577), and by Spencer in The Faerie Queen (1590).
		The most influential of all was probably The True Chronicle History of King Leir, which was anonymous.
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	§18. "The True Chronicle History of King Leir". IV. Early English Tragedy. Vol. 5. The Drama to 1642, Part One. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		There is more point than was, perhaps, apparent to the author in Mumford’s comment upon the disguised king’s extraordinary speed in the wooing of Cordella:
		King Leirs three daughters were wedded in one day:
		On this point see Perrett, W., “The Story of King Lear,” Palaestra, vol.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/215/0418.html (472 words)

	King Leir - Anonymous - printed 1605
		Gonorill, daughter of King Leir, later wife of the King of Cornwall.
		Cordella, daughter of King Leir, later wife of the King of Gallia.
		Ragan, daughter of King Leir, later wife of the King of Cambria.
	www.elizabethanauthors.com /king-leir-1605-1-16.htm (9732 words)

	(William IX* BRERETON - Leir,* King of BRETON ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Blaedud,* King of BRETON (920 BC - 870 BC)
		Brutus,* King of BRETON (1150 BC - 1091 BC)
		Leir,* King of BRETON (890 BC - 810 BC)
	www.afn.org /~lawson/index/ind0103.html (135 words)

	Early Modern Literary Studies 5.2 (September, 1999):2.1-17 The Lunar Calendar of Shakespeare's King Lear
		Scholars accept that Shakespeare was familiar with Holinshed's account of King Leir, who flourished in the ninth century BC, three generations prior to the founding of Rome in 752-750 BC.
		The king who had declared 1 January the start of the civil year in Scotland and had recognized Shrovetide in the opening scenes of Merchant was an ideal auditor for Shakespeare's calendrical mischief.
		The author of Leir employs trumpets to herald the entrance of the Gallian King (2388), to amplify scenes of combat (Sc.
	www.shu.ac.uk /emls/05-2/sohmlear.htm (8337 words)

	King Lear @Web English Teacher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Students are often disappointed or confused by the deaths of Cordelia and Lear at the end of King Lear.
		In this standards-based lesson, students learn that audiences and critics have been arguing over the end of the play for four hundred years.
		An interdisciplinary, research-based approach to understanding King Lear in its cultural context.
	www.webenglishteacher.com /kinglear.html (331 words)

	The True Chronicle History of King Leir (Quarto)
		Vnto the Kings of Cambria and of Cornwall;
		Cease for thy King, seeke for thy selfe to woo.
		You are the fitter for the King of heauen:
	ise.uvic.ca /Annex/DraftTxt/Leir/Leir_Q.html (11844 words)

	King Leir
		Gonorill, eldest daughter of King Leir, wife of the king of Cornwall.
		Ragan, second daughter of King Leir, wife of the king of Cambria.
		Nobles at Leir's court; nobles of Gallia; attendants on the king of Cornwall; nobles of the prince of Cambria; Gallian soldiers; soldiers of Cornwall and Cambria.
	pages.unibas.ch /shine/kingleir.html (11251 words)

	Shakespeare, King Lear. resources, research, criticism, sources, adaptations, in music, film, popular culture, teaching
		The true Chronical History of King Leir and his three daughters, Gonorill, Ragan and Cordella
		Edwin Forrest, Cooke, Macready, Sheridan, as King Lear; Fleming as Edgar; Eliza Logan, Clara Rousby as Cordelia [http://www.library.upenn.edu/etext/furness/learimages] (Jan. 2002)
		[http://www.lessontutor.com/ci3.html] "It can be argued that the central concern of King Lear is the nature of a particular form of evil: anger.
	pages.unibas.ch /shine/linkstraglearwf.html (1556 words)

	literature online, Full text
		THE True Chronicle History of King Leir, and his three daughters, Gonorill, Ragan, and Cordella.
		Enter the King of Cornwall and his man booted and spurd a riding wand, and a letter in his hand.
		Enter the King of Cambria booted and spurd, and his man with a wand and a letter.
	www.bu.edu /english/levine/leir.htm (11695 words)

	Find in a Library: The chronicle history of King Leir: the original of Shakespeare's ‘King Lear':
		Find in a Library: The chronicle history of King Leir: the original of Shakespeare's ‘King Lear':
		The chronicle history of King Leir: the original of Shakespeare's ‘King Lear':
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	www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/58f83095a2f44e8e.html (57 words)

	King Leir: Table of Contents
		The Internet Shakespeare Editions offer old spelling, draft texts of the anonymous play The True Chronicle History of King Leir (1605).
		The True Chronicle History of King Leir is probably one of the sources Shakespeare consulted (or reacted against) when he was writing King Lear.
		The play was written at least eleven years before it was published in 1605, since it was entered in the Stationers' Register in 1594, and was performed by Henslowe's company at the Rose in the same year.
	ise.uvic.ca /Annex/DraftTxt/Leir (151 words)

	Cordelia, King Lear And His Fool - The True Chronicle History of King Leir - Anonymous - 1605
		Cordelia, King Lear And His Fool - The True Chronicle History of King Leir - Anonymous - 1605
		He means to match me with the Cornwall King.
		To joyne in marriage with the Irish King:
	users.bigpond.net.au /catchus/Leir.html (2013 words)

	A Book of Old English Ballads: King Leir and his Three Daughters
		A Book of Old English Ballads: King Leir and his Three Daughters
		In hope that in her court, good king,
		Yet he, good king, in his old days,
	www.sacred-texts.com /neu/eng/boeb/boeb05.htm (109 words)

	The True Chronicle History of King Leir: 1605 (The Tudor Facsimile Texts) by 0404534074 - Direct Textbook Price ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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		The True Chronicle History of King Leir: 1605 (The Tudor Facsimile Texts)
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