King Lear (play) by William Shakespeare

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/King_Lear_(play)_by_William_Shakespeare

GPTKB entity

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Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:play
gptkbp:adaptation	gptkb:King_Lear_(1971_film) gptkb:King_Lear_(1983_TV_film) gptkb:King_Lear_(1987_film) gptkb:King_Lear_(2018_film) gptkb:Ran_(1985_film)
gptkbp:author	gptkb:William_Shakespeare
gptkbp:dateWritten	1605–1606
gptkbp:firstPerformed	1606
gptkbp:genre	tragedy
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	King Lear (play) by William Shakespeare
gptkbp:inspiredBy	gptkb:Holinshed's_Chronicles gptkb:The_True_Chronicle_History_of_King_Leir
gptkbp:language	English
gptkbp:mainCharacter	gptkb:Gloucester gptkb:King_Lear gptkb:Regan gptkb:Kent gptkb:Cordelia gptkb:Edgar gptkb:Edmund gptkb:Goneril gptkb:The_Fool
gptkbp:notableActor	gptkb:Ian_McKellen gptkb:Laurence_Olivier gptkb:Paul_Scofield gptkb:Anthony_Hopkins
gptkbp:notableProduction	gptkb:Globe_Theatre gptkb:Royal_Shakespeare_Company gptkb:National_Theatre_(UK)
gptkbp:notableQuote	Nothing will come of nothing. How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child! When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
gptkbp:originalLanguage	gptkb:Early_Modern_English
gptkbp:publishedIn	gptkb:First_Folio gptkb:Quarto_(1608)
gptkbp:setting	gptkb:Ancient_Britain
gptkbp:structure	five acts
gptkbp:subject	human suffering redemption parent-child relationships loyalty and betrayal justice and injustice madness and sanity division of a kingdom nature of power
gptkbp:theme	gptkb:family betrayal justice loyalty madness power blindness
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:King_Lear_(1987_film) gptkb:King_Lear_(2018_film)
gptkbp:bfsLayer	8