The Yiddish King Lear
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The Yiddish King Lear was an 1892 play by Jacob Gordin, and is generally seen as ushering in the first great era of Yiddish theater in New York City's Yiddish Theater District, in which serious drama
Poster for an 1898 production of The Yiddish King Lear starring Jacob Adler.
Jacob Gordin, the writer of The Yiddish King Lear
The Yiddish King Lear (1934)
King Lear
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The Tragedy of King Lear, often shortened to King Lear, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare in late 1605 or early 1606. Set in pre-Roman Britain, the play depicts the consequences of King Lear
The Yiddish King Lear
…children that was to preoccupy the later Yiddish stage and even the American-Jewish theater." The play is not a translation of William Shakespeare's King Lear, but the title is an acknowledgement of the roots of the plot. Gordin's play is set in Vilna (Vilnius, Lithuania), in 1890. It begins at the Purim feast…
Cordelia's portion by Ford Madox Brown (c. 1866-72)
Cordelia in the Court of King Lear (1873) by Sir John Gilbert
Lear and Cordelia by Ford Madox Brown
The first edition of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande, printed in 1577