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Edwin Forrest as King Lear - James Rees

Images of Performances of King Lear - UPenn Library

King Lear Filmography

The King Lear Quarto in Rehearsal and Performance - David Richman

Ran - Japanese King Lear by Akira Kurosawa

Royal Shakespeare Company - 2004 Production

The Character of Kent in King Lear - Donald LaGreca

Classic Notes on King Lear - summary and analysis

The Cleveland Press Shakespeare Photographs - King Lear

Edgar and Kingship in the Three King Lears - Abraham Stoll

Enjoying King Lear - Ed Friedlander

Every Inch a King - Interview with actor Ian Holm on King Lear

Internet Shakespeare Edition - Draft texts of the folio and quarto editions of the play

Is This the Promised End? - Essay on King Lear by Joyce Carol Oates

King Lear - Commentary with Quarto and Folio text variations

King Lear - Social/historical background, staging Lear

King Lear - A class project at Acadia University

King Lear - Analysis and history of the play

King Lear - Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous critique of the play

King Lear and Editing Shakespeare - Analysis and sample exercises

King Lear at the University of Utah - Summary and analysis

King Lear Paintings

King Lear: Sources, Versions and Revisions

The Lunar Calendar of Shakespeare's King Lear - Steve Sohmer

Shakespearean Tragedy: King Lear - A. C. Bradley

Speak What We Feel: An Introduction to King Lear - Ian Johnston