William Shakespeare, M. William Shak-speare: his true chronicle historie of the life and death of King Lear, etc. ed. sec. [1619]  Click here to see the British Library digital images of the 1608 and 1619 quartos compared side by side.  Click here to see the "First Folio" (1623) digital images from Copy 5 at the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, D.C.).

ESTC System No.   006182584 ESTC Citation No.   S111098

Author - personal   Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Uniform title   King Lear

Title   M. VVilliam Shake-speare, his true chronicle history of the life and death of King Lear, and his three daughters. With the vnfortunate life of Edgar, sonne and heire to the Earle of Glocester, and his sullen and assumed humour of Tom of Bedlam. As it was plaid before the Kings Maiesty at White-Hall, vppon S. Stephens night, in Christmas hollidaies. By his Maiesties Seruants, playing vsually at the Globe on the Banck-side. Variant title   History of King Lear   M. William Shake-speare, his true chronicle history of the life and death of King Lear, and his three daughters Publisher/year   [London] : Printed [by William Jaggard] for Nathaniel Butter, 1608 [i.e. 1619]

Physical descr.   [88] p. ;  4^o. General note   Mostly in verse.   The imprint date is false; actually printed in 1619 by William Jaggard for the Shakespearian collection of that year (see Greg, III, p. 1107-9).   Signatures: A-L⁴. Uncontrolled note   rpm 07/12/96 Citation/references   STC (2nd ed.), 22293   Greg, I, 265(b)   Pforzheimer, 887 Surrogates   Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. University Microfilms International, 1964. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 1007:3). Loc. of filmed copy   L.

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