Lear, King of England (Legendary character)
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Name (Hebrew)
ליר, מלך אנגליה (דמות ספרותית)
Name (Latin)
Lear, King of England (Legendary character)
Other forms of name
King Lear (Legendary character)
Lear, King (Legendary character)
Lear, King of Britain (Legendary character)
Leir, King of Britain (Legendary character)
Leir, King of England (Legendary character)
המלך ליר, מלך אנגליה (דמות ספרותית)
Gender
male
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MARC
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Sources of Information
- Concise Oxford companion to English literature, viewed online April 21, 2014
- Britannica online, viewed April 21, 2014 (Lear, legendary British king and central character in Shakepeare's King Lear)
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King Leir and his daughters, marginal illustration in the Chronica Majora, c. 1250
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File:King Leir and his daughters, marginal illustration in the Chronica Majora, c. 1250.jpg
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File:Lear .jpg
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File:Lear and Cordelia in Prison c1779 N 05189 B 53 Pen and watercolour 123×175 by William Blake.jpg
William Blake
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Wikipedia description:
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 Britain. According to Geoffrey's genealogy of the British dynasty, Leir reigned around the 8th century BC, around the time of the founding of Rome. The story was modified and retold by William Shakespeare in his Jacobean tragedy King Lear.
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