King Leir

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Performed at the Globe Theater in 1605, King Leir is presumed to be a prime source for Shakespeare. Although the story is the same, in this anonymous version the ending is happy. This is the first time this fascinating work is published in a single-play edition

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Greg, W. W. (Editor)
Lee, Sidney (Editor)
Thomas Kyd, Thomas Lodge (attributed authors)

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King Leir

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Fiction and Literature, Poetry
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822.3Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish drama1558-1625 Elizabethan period
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PR2411 .K55Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish LiteratureEnglish renaissance (1500-1640)
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