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Field name | Value |
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Title | King Lear |
Document Type | Part Book |
Reference | Sa 50-64 |
Primary Association | Roberts, James B.; Fawcett, Owen |
Date of Production | c. 1863 |
Description | The fifteen part books comprise the whole cast, some minor parts being doubled or trebled. Each book is titled and signed in Roberts's autograph. Other names appearing on covers or inside of some books may be those of actors to whom the parts were assigned. Among these Mollie Williams (the Fool) and George Radcliffe (Oswald) can be traced on the New York stage in the 1860s in G.C.D. Odell, Annals of the New York Stage |
Genre | Tragedy |
Theme(s) | Royalty, Aristocracy and Class; History, Politics and Corruption |
Content Keywords | age, family, royalty, betrayal, love, imprisonment, death, madness, suffering |
Context Keywords | actor, script, cues, character, costume |
Shattuck Code | KL 67 |
Play | King Lear |
Library | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Note | Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Folger Shakespeare Library's online catalogue and 'The Shakespeare Prompt books, A Descriptive Catalogue' by Charles H. Shattuck. |