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Text: Norton Anthology or Norton Shakespeare or the Zeitgeist Anthology: Volume IV, which contains King Lear together with The Tempest (honors text) plus other context reading as an instantly downloadable e-book (coming one of these days!).

A prose re-telling of King Lear by Charles and Mary Lamb.

Context readings in prose.

Context readings in poetry.

Excellence in Literature - The Jacobean Age

Shakespearean Characters by Thomas Stothard c. 1813. Lear and Cordelia can be see just at left of center, near Falstaff.

King Lear by William Shakespeare

Here are some of the images I have found that relate to King Lear!

King Lear by Edwin Austin Abbey, c. 1898.

Lear and Cordelia by Ford Madox Brown c. 1849-54.
This painting represents a moment in Act IV, Scene vii.

Cordelia's Portion by Ford Madox Brown c. 1866.

Famous Quotes from King Lear

Can you recognize who said these?

"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!" - (Act I, Scene IV)

"I am a man more sinned against than sinning". - (Act III, Scene II)

"My love's more richer than my tongue". - (Act I, Scene I)

"Nothing will come of nothing." - (Act I, Scene I)

"Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest, lend less than thou owest". - (Act I, Scene IV)

"The worst is not, So long as we can say, 'This is the worst.' " . - (Act IV, Scene I)