KING LEAR, A TRAGEDY IN FIVE ACTS, BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, AS ARRANGED FOR THE STAGE BY HENRY IRVING, AND PRESENTED AT THE LYCEUM THEATRE, On NOVEMBER 10th, 1892. London: NASSAU STEAM PRESS," LTD 1892. THIS version of Shakespeare's tragedy, King Lear, has been made for practical use on the stage, the play being necessarily reduced to reasonable length to suit the exigencies of the present time. In the curtailment, all superfluous horrors have been omitted. As the period of King Lear is fabulous, I have chosen, at the suggestion of Mr. Ford Madox Brown (who has kindly designed three scenes in the First and Second Acts), a time shortly after the departure of the Romans, when the Britons would naturally inhabit the houses left vacant. HENRY IRVING. |