King Leir is an anonymous Elizabethan play about the life of the ancient Brythonic king Leir of Britain. It was published in 1605 but was entered into...
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Leir was a legendary king of the Britons whose story was recounted by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his pseudohistorical 12th-century History of the Kings of...
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King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It is loosely based on the mythological Leir of Britain. King Lear, in preparation for his old age...
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of King Lear King Lear Films King Lear Video Clips on YouTube The True Chronicle Historie of King Leir Text (1605) by Anonymous The History of King Lear...
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Cordelia of Britain (category King Lear)
response, Leir refused her any land in Britain or the blessing of any husband. Regardless, Aganippus, the king of the Franks, courted her, and Leir granted...
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directed by Peter Brook -King Lear Video Clips The True Chronicle Historie of King Leir Text (1605) by Anonymous The History of King Lear (1681) by Nahum...
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of Henwin, Duke of Cornwall, and Regan, the daughter of King Leir. Cunedagius, grandson of Leir, despised the rule of his aunt Cordelia. With the help...
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Shakespeare's play King Lear is based on material taken secondhand (through Raphael Holinshed) from Geoffrey of Monmouth's mythical king King Leir, who has often...
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Geoffrey's association of King Leir with Leicester and Coel with Colchester, as well as William of Malmesbury's assertion that Gawain was king of Galloway, following...
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