King Lear: From the Folger Archive

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[R.B. Mantell as] Lear [in Shakespeare’s King Lear] To William Winter Yours R.B. Mantell [graphic].
Mr. Kean as King Lear [in Shakespeare’s King Lear] [graphic] / W H [sculp.].
[Photographs of Edwin Forrest as Hamlet, Coriolanus, Virginius, Richard III, Macbeth, King Lear, Metamora and others] [graphic] / F. Gutekunst.
Cordelia (1896). The graphic gallery of Shakespeare’s heroines …
[Julia Marlowe as Cordelia in Shakespeare’s King Lear] [graphic] / Eddowes Bros.
[Edgar in King Lear, drawing for the Boydell Shakespeare] [graphic] / [John Hamilton Mortimer].
King Lear, III, 2, Another part of the heath, enter Lear and the fool [graphic] / [Johann Heinrich Ramberg].
Edgar & the Duke of Gloster meeting King Lear, who in his madness is proclaiming himself “every inch a king” [IV, 6] [graphic].
King Lear and Cordelia [graphic] / B. West, 1793.
Lear and Cordelia… act V scene III [graphic] / V. W. Bromley, pinxt ; C. Mottram sculpt.
King Lear, a set of eight original drawings [graphic] / [Byam Shaw].
King Lear, a set of eight original drawings [graphic] / [Byam Shaw].
King Lear, a set of eight original drawings [graphic] / [Byam Shaw].
King Lear, a set of eight original drawings [graphic] / [Byam Shaw].
King Lear, a set of eight original drawings [graphic] / [Byam Shaw].
King Lear, a set of eight original drawings [graphic] / [Byam Shaw].
King Lear, a set of eight original drawings [graphic] / [Byam Shaw].
King Lear, a set of eight original drawings [graphic] / [Byam Shaw].