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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

FROM

· THE BEQUEST OF EVERT JANSEN WENDELL

1918

13485.84,10

London:

"NASSAU STEAM PRESS," LTD.

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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.

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Mr. LACY.

Mr. LORRISS.

OSWALD

Physician
An Officer

A Gentleman

A Messenger

A Herald

A Knight

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Miss MAUD MILTON.

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Miss ELLEN TERRY.

Knights attending on LEAR, Officers, Messengers, Soldiers, and

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SCENE 2.-Another part of the Heath

SCENE 3.-Farm-house

ACT IV.

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7. Harker. Hawes Craven.

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Hawes Craven.

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