King Lear, by William Shakespeare

Illustrated electronic edition of a Shakespearean tragedy prepared in accordance with the principles of The World in Pictures project, providing a complete set of illustrations, among them 32 illustrations by outstanding painters, with a comprehensive rendering of the plot.


Texts by Charles and Mery Lamb used in this publication.


Works of the following artists are used in this publication: Robert Smirke, George Frederick Bensell, William Frederick Yeames, Ilya Repin, Joshua Reynolds, Gustav Pope, A. von Henkel, Ford Madox Brown, Henry Fuseli, Edwin Austin Abbey, Benjamin West, George W. Joy, James Barry, Daniel F. Wentworth and Мoritz Retzsch.