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KING LEAR - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE TASCHENBUCH

King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare written between 1603 and 1606 and later revised.
Shakespeare's earlier version  The True Chronicle of the History of the Life and Death of King
Lear and His Three Daughters  was published in quarto in 1608. The Tragedy of King Lear  a more
theatrical version  was included in the 1623 First Folio. The title character descends into
madness after disposing of his estate between two of his three daughters based on their
flattery  bringing tragic consequences for all. The play is based on the legend of Leir of
Britain  a mythological pre-Roman Celtic king. Life of William Shakespeare is a biography of
William Shakespeare by the eminent critic Sidney Lee. This book was one of the first major
biographies of the Bard of Avon. It was published in 1898  based on the article contributed to
the Dictionary of National Biography. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) was an English poet and
playwright  widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's
pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the Bard of Avon. His
extant works  including some collaborations  consist of about 38 plays  154 sonnets  two long
narrative poems  and a few other verses  the authorship of some of which is uncertain. Sir
Sidney Lee (1859 - 1926) was an English biographer and critic. He was a lifelong scholar and
enthusiast of Shakespeare. His article on Shakespeare in the fifty-first volume of the
Dictionary of National Biography formed the basis of his Life of William Shakespeare. This
full-length life is often credited as the first modern biography of the poet.

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