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Creator: William Shakespeare
Title: M. William Shak-speare: his True Chronicle Historie of the life and death of King Lear and his three Daughters. With the unfortunate life of Edgar, sonne and heire to the Earle of Gloster, and his sullen and assumed humor of Tom of Bedlam. As it was played before the Kings Maiestie at Whitehall vpon S. Stephans night in Christmas Hollidayes. By his Maiesties seruants playing usually at the Gloabe on the Banckeside.
Date: London : Printed for Nathaniel Butter, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard, etc., 1608.
Repository: The British Library, London, UK
Call number and opening: C.34.k.18, title page
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Folger Shakespeare Library staff, "King Lear, first edition," Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/599.
British Library, C.34.k.18. See Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/599.