The true chronicle history of King Leir. 1605.

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Related Names

Lodge, Thomas, 1558?-1625.
Kyd, Thomas, 1558-1594.
Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.

Language(s)

English

Published

[London?] Issued for subscribers by the editor of the Tudor facsimile texts, 1910.

Subjects

Lear, > Lear, / King of England (Legendary character)
Lear, > Lear, / King of England (Legendary character)

Note

"The 'consensus of opinion' divides the authorship jointly between Greene, Kyd, and Lodge."--Pref.
Title of original: The True Chronicle History of King Leir, and his three daughters, Gonorill, Ragan and Cordella ... London, Printed by Simon Stafford for Iohn Wright ... 1605.
Facsimile of the earliest edition now known, from an imperfect copy in the British museum. The missing pages are here supplied from another but inferior copy in the King's library.

Physical Description

3 p. l., facsim.: 1 p. l., [70] p. 27 cm.

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