King Leir: Bibliography
Editions Collated
Anonymous. The true chronicle history of King Leir, and his
three daughters, Gonorill, Ragan, and
Cordella. London:
John Wright,
1605. STC 15343. ESTC S111094
Steevens, George, ed. The True Chronicle History of King Leir and his Three Daughters. Twenty of the Plays of Shakespeare: Being the Whole Number Printed in Quarto During
his life-time, or before the Restoration. Vol. 4.
London: J. and R.
Tonson, 1766. 2K5r–2P8r. ESTC
T140378.
Lee,
Sidney, ed. The Chronicle
History of King Leir. By
Anonymous.
London: Chatto &
Windus, 1909.
Michie,
Donald, ed. A Critical
Edition of the True Chronicle History of King Leir
and His Three Daughters, Gonorill, Ragan and
Cordella. By Anonymous.
New York: Taylor
& Francis, 1991.
Stern,
Tiffany, ed. The Chronicle
History of King Leir. By
Anonymous.
London: Nick Hern
Books, 2002.
Secondary Sources
Anonymous. The Chronicle
History of King Leir. Ed. Sidney
Lee. London:
Chatto & Windus,
1909.
Anonymous. A Critical
Edition of the True Chronicle History of King Leir
and His Three Daughters, Gonorill, Ragan and
Cordella. Ed. Donald
Michie. New York:
Garland,
1991.
Capell, Edward. The Playʼs of William Shakepeare from the
Text of Dr. S. Johnson.
Dublin: Thomas
Ewing, 1771.
Chambers, E.K.
The Elizabethan Stage. 4 vols.
Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1923; rpt.
1967.
Cushman, Robert.
2014 is the Year of King Lear.National Post. 26 May 2014.
Fitzpatrick, Joan. Irish Demons: English Writings on Ireland, the Irish, and Gender by Spenser and his
Contemporaries. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2000.
Foakes, R.A., ed. Henslowe’s Diary, 2nd ed.
Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2002. WSB
aah397.
Furness,
H.H., ed. King
Lear. By Shakespeare,
William. London:
J.B. Lippincott & Co.,
1880.
Greg, W.W.
The Date of King Lear and Shakespeareʼs Use of Earlier Versions of the Story.The Library 4.20 (1940): 377–400.
Henslowe, Philip. Henslowe’s Diary. Ed. R.A.
Foakes. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press,
1961.
Ioppolo, Grace.
Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 17 (2005): 165–179.A Jointure more or less: Re-measuring The True Chroncicle History of King Leir and his three daughters.
Jewkes, Wilfred Thomas. Act Division in Elizabethan and Jacobean Plays, 1583-1616. Hamden, CT: Shoe String Press, 1958.
Jones, James H.
Leir and Lear: Matthew 5:33–37, The Turning Point and Rescue Theme.Comparative Drama 4.2 (1970): 125–131.
Knowles, Richard.
How Shakespeare Knew King Leir.Shakespeare Survey 55 (2002): 12–35.
Law, Robert Adger.
Holinshedʼs Leir Story and Shakespeareʼs.Studies in Philology 47 (1950): 42–50.
Law, Robert Adger.
On the Date of King Lear.PMLA 21.2 (1906): 462–477.
Lee,
Sidney, ed. The Chronicle
History of King Leir. By
Anonymous.
London: Chatto &
Windus, 1909.
Lynch, Stephen J.
Sin Suffering, and Redemption in Leir and Lear.Shakespeare Studies 18 (1986): 161–174.
Malone, Edmond, ed. The Plays and Poems of William
Shakespeare. 10 vols.
London: J.
Rivingston and Sons, 1790.
ESTC T138858.
McMillin, Scott, and
Sally-Beth MacLean. The Queen’s Men and Their Plays.
Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1998. WSB
aw359.
Michie,
Donald, ed. A Critical
Edition of the True Chronicle History of King Leir
and His Three Daughters, Gonorill, Ragan and
Cordella. By Anonymous.
New York: Taylor
& Francis, 1991.
Mueller, Martin.
From Leir to Lear.PQ 73.2 (1994): 195–217.
Oberer, Karen.
Appropriations of the Popular Tradition in The Famous Victories of Henry V and The Troublesome Reign of King John.Locating the Queen’s Men, 1583–1603: Material Practices and Conditions of Playing. Ed. Helen Ostovich, Holger Schott Syme, and Andrew Griffin. Ashgate: Farnham, 2009, 171–182. WSB aay90.
Ostovich, Helen,
Holger Schott Syme, and
Andrew Griffin, eds. Locating the Queen’s Men, 1583–1603:
Material Practices and Conditions of
Playing. Surrey:
Ashgate, 2009.
WSB aay90.
Palmer, Barbara.
On the Road and On the Wagon.Locating the Queenʼs Men: Material Practices and Conditions of Playing, 1583–1603. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009. 27–40.
Pearson, Jacqueline.
The Influence of King Leir on Shakespeareʼs Richard II.Notes and Queries 226/29.2 (1982): 113–115.
Pearson, Jacqueline. Much Ado about Nothing and King
Leir. Notes and
Queries 226/28.2 (1981):
128–129.
Perrett, Wilfrid. The Story of King Lear from Geoffrey of
Monmouth to Shakespeare. Mayer
& Müller, 1904.
Pinciss, Gerald.
Thomas Creede and the Repertory of the Queen’s Men 1583–1592.Modern Philology 67.4 (1970): 321–330.
Roberts, David.
Henry VIII and the True Chronicle History of King Leir.Notes and Queries n.s. 48.3 (2001): 302-303.
Shakespeare,
William. King
Lear. Ed. H.H. Furness.
London: J.B.
Lippincott & Co.,
1880.
Symonds, John Addington.
Shakespeareʼs Predecessors in the
English Drama. London:
Smith, Elder, and Co.,
1884.
Tolstoy, Leo. Tolstoy on Shakespeare: A Critical Essay on
Shakespeare. Trans. V. Tchertkoff and I.M.F.. New
York: Funk and
Wagnalls, 1906.
Prosopography
Andrew Griffin
Andrew Griffin is an associate professor in the department of English and an affiliate
professor in the department of Theater and Dance at the University of California,
Santa Barbara. He is general editor (text) of Queen’s Men Editions. He studies early
modern drama and early modern historiography while serving as the lead editor at the
EMC Imprint. He has co-edited with Helen Ostovich and Holger Schott Syme Locating the Queen’s Men (2009) and has co-edited The Making of a Broadside Ballad (2016) with Patricia Fumerton and Carl Stahmer. His monograph, Untimely Deaths in Renaissance Drama: Biography, History, Catastrophe, was published with the University of Toronto Press in 2019. He is editor of the
anonymous The Chronicle History of King Leir (Queen’s Men Editions, 2011). He can be contacted at griffin@english.ucsb.edu.
Anonymous
Helen Ostovich
Helen Ostovich, professor emerita of English at McMaster University, is the founder
and general editor of Queen’s Men Editions. She is a general editor of The Revels Plays (Manchester University Press); Series
Editor of Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama (Ashgate, now Routledge),
and series co-editor of Late Tudor and Stuart Drama (MIP); play-editor of several
works by Ben Jonson, in Four Comedies: Ben Jonson (1997); Every Man Out of his Humour (Revels 2001); and The Magnetic Lady (Cambridge 2012). She has also edited the Norton Shakespeare 3 The Merry Wives of Windsor Q1602 and F1623 (2015); The Late Lancashire Witches and A Jovial Crew for Richard Brome Online, revised for a 4-volume set from OUP 2021; The Ball, for the Oxford Complete Works of James Shirley (2021); The Merry Wives of Windsor for Internet Shakespeare Editions, and The Dutch Courtesan (with Erin Julian) for the Complete Works of John Marston, OUP 2022. She has published
many articles and book chapters on Jonson, Shakespeare, and others, and several book
collections, most recently Magical Transformations of the Early Modern English Stage with Lisa Hopkins (2014), and the equivalent to book website, Performance as Research in Early English Theatre Studies: The Three Ladies of London in Context containing scripts, glossary, almost fifty conference papers edited and updated to
essays; video; link to Queenʼs Mens Ediitons and YouTube: http://threeladiesoflondon.mcmaster.ca/contexts/index.htm, 2015. Recently, she was guest editor of Strangers and Aliens in London ca 1605,
Special Issue on Marston, Early Theatre 23.1 (June 2020). She can be contacted at ostovich@mcmaster.ca.
Janelle Jenstad
Janelle Jenstad is a Professor of English at the University of
Victoria, Director of The Map
of Early Modern London, and Director of Linked Early Modern Drama
Online. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she
co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old
Words, New Tools (Routledge). She has edited John Stow’s
A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML
and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice
(with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not
Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in
Digital Humanities Quarterly, Elizabethan Theatre, Early Modern
Literary Studies, Shakespeare
Bulletin, Renaissance and
Reformation, and The Journal of Medieval
and Early Modern Studies. She contributed chapters to Approaches to Teaching Othello (MLA); Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives
(MLA); Institutional Culture in Early Modern
England (Brill); Shakespeare, Language, and
the Stage (Arden); Performing Maternity in
Early Modern England (Ashgate); New
Directions in the Geohumanities (Routledge); Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter);
Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating
Gazetteers (Indiana); Making Things and
Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota); Rethinking
Shakespeare Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital
Technologies (Routledge); and Civic
Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern
London (Routledge). For more details, see janellejenstad.com.
Karen Sawyer Marsalek
Karen Sawyer Marsalek (Famous Victories of Henry V, early modern text) is an associate professor of English at St. Olaf College. She
has edited, directed and performed in several early English plays. Her publications
include essays on
trueresurrections in medieval drama and The Winter’s Tale,
falseresurrections in the Chester Antichrist and 1 Henry IV, and theatrical properties of skulls and severed heads. Her current research is on remains and revenants in the King’s Men’s repertory. She can be contacted at marsalek@stolaf.edu.
Kate LeBere
Project Manager, 2020–2021. Assistant Project Manager, 2019–2020. Textual Remediator
and Encoder, 2019–2021. Kate LeBere completed her BA (Hons.) in History and English
at the University of Victoria in 2020. During her degree she published papers in The Corvette (2018), The Albatross (2019), and PLVS VLTRA (2020) and presented at the English Undergraduate Conference (2019), Qualicum History
Conference (2020), and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute’s Project Management
in the Humanities Conference (2021). While her primary research focus was sixteenth
and seventeenth century England, she completed her honours thesis on Soviet ballet
during the Russian Cultural Revolution. She is currently a student at the University
of British Columbia’s iSchool, working on her masters in library and information science.
Martin Holmes
Martin Holmes has worked as a developer in the
UVicʼs Humanities Computing and Media Centre for
over two decades, and has been involved with dozens
of Digital Humanities projects. He has served on
the TEI Technical Council and as Managing Editor of
the Journal of the TEI. He took over from Joey Takeda as
lead developer on LEMDO in 2020. He is a collaborator on
the SSHRC Partnership Grant led by Janelle Jenstad.
Mathew Martin
Dr. Mathew R. Martin is Full Professor at Brock University, Canada, and
Director of Brock’s PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities. He is the
author of Between Theatre and Philosophy (2001)
and Tragedy and Trauma in the Plays of Christopher
Marlowe (2015) and co-editor, with his colleague James
Allard, of Staging Pain, 1500-1800: Violence and Trauma
in British Theatre (2009). For Broadview Press he has edited
Christopher Marlowe’s Edward the Second (2010),
Jew of Malta (2012), Doctor Faustus: The B-Text (2013), and Tamburlaine the Great Part One and Part Two (2014). For
Revels Editions he has edited George Peele’s David and
Bathsheba (2018) and Marlowe’s The Massacre
at Paris (forthcoming). He has published two articles of
textual criticism on the printed texts of Marlowe’s plays:
Inferior Readings: The Transmigration of(Early Theatre 17.2 [December 2014]), and (on the political inflections of the shifts in punctuation in the early editions of the play)Materialin Tamburlaine the Great
Accidents Happen: Roger Barnes’s 1612 Edition of Marlowe’s Edward the Second(Early Theatre 16.1 [June 2013]). His latest editing project is a Broadview edition of Robert Greene’s Selimus. He is also writing two books: one on psychoanalysis and literary theory and one on the language of non-violence in Elizabethan drama in the late 1580s and 1590s.
Navarra Houldin
Project manager 2022-present. Textual remediator 2021-present. Navarra Houldin (they/them)
completed their BA in History and Spanish at the University of Victoria in 2022. During
their degree, they worked as a teaching assistant with the University of Victoriaʼs
Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies. Their primary research was on gender and
sexuality in early modern Europe and Latin America.
Peter Cockett
Peter Cockett is an associate professor in the Theatre and Film Studies at McMaster
University. He is the general editor (performance), and technical co-ordinating editor
of Queen’s Men Editions. He was the stage director for the Shakespeare and the Queen’s Men project (SQM),
directing King Leir, The Famous Victories of Henry V, and Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (2006) and he is the performance editor for our editions of those plays. The process
behind those productions is documented in depth on his website Performing the Queen’s Men. Also featured on this site are his PAR productions of Clyomon and Clamydes (2009) and Three Ladies of London (2014). For the PLS, the University of Toronto’s Medieval and Renaissance Players,
he has directed the Digby Mary Magdalene (2003) and the double bill of George Peele’s The Old Wives Tale and the Chester Antichrist (2004). He also directed An Experiment in Elizabethan Comedy (2005) for the SQM project and Inside Out: The Persistence of Allegory (2008) in collaboration with Alan Dessen. Peter is a professional actor and director
with numerous stage and screen credits. He can be contacted at cockett@mcmaster.ca.
Tracey El Hajj
Junior Programmer 2019–2020. Research Associate 2020–2021. Tracey received her PhD
from the Department of English at the University of Victoria in the field of Science
and Technology Studies. Her research focuses on the algorhythmics of networked communications. She was a 2019–2020 President’s Fellow in Research-Enriched
Teaching at UVic, where she taught an advanced course on
Artificial Intelligence and Everyday Life.Tracey was also a member of the Map of Early Modern London team, between 2018 and 2021. Between 2020 and 2021, she was a fellow in residence at the Praxis Studio for Comparative Media Studies, where she investigated the relationships between artificial intelligence, creativity, health, and justice. As of July 2021, Tracey has moved into the alt-ac world for a term position, while also teaching in the English Department at the University of Victoria.
Bibliography
Anonymous. A Critical
Edition of the True Chronicle History of King Leir
and His Three Daughters, Gonorill, Ragan and
Cordella. Ed. Donald
Michie. New York:
Garland,
1991.
Anonymous. The Chronicle
History of King Leir. Ed. Sidney
Lee. London:
Chatto & Windus,
1909.
Anonymous. The true chronicle history of King Leir, and his
three daughters, Gonorill, Ragan, and
Cordella. London:
John Wright,
1605. STC 15343. ESTC S111094
Capell, Edward. The Playʼs of William Shakepeare from the
Text of Dr. S. Johnson.
Dublin: Thomas
Ewing, 1771.
Chambers, E.K.
The Elizabethan Stage. 4 vols.
Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1923; rpt.
1967.
Cushman, Robert.
2014 is the Year of King Lear.National Post. 26 May 2014.
Fitzpatrick, Joan. Irish Demons: English Writings on Ireland, the Irish, and Gender by Spenser and his
Contemporaries. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2000.
Foakes, R.A., ed. Henslowe’s Diary, 2nd ed.
Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2002. WSB
aah397.
Furness,
H.H., ed. King
Lear. By Shakespeare,
William. London:
J.B. Lippincott & Co.,
1880.
Greg, W.W.
The Date of King Lear and Shakespeareʼs Use of Earlier Versions of the Story.The Library 4.20 (1940): 377–400.
Henslowe, Philip. Henslowe’s Diary. Ed. R.A.
Foakes. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press,
1961.
Ioppolo, Grace.
Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 17 (2005): 165–179.A Jointure more or less: Re-measuring The True Chroncicle History of King Leir and his three daughters.
Jewkes, Wilfred Thomas. Act Division in Elizabethan and Jacobean Plays, 1583-1616. Hamden, CT: Shoe String Press, 1958.
Jones, James H.
Leir and Lear: Matthew 5:33–37, The Turning Point and Rescue Theme.Comparative Drama 4.2 (1970): 125–131.
Knowles, Richard.
How Shakespeare Knew King Leir.Shakespeare Survey 55 (2002): 12–35.
Law, Robert Adger.
Holinshedʼs Leir Story and Shakespeareʼs.Studies in Philology 47 (1950): 42–50.
Law, Robert Adger.
On the Date of King Lear.PMLA 21.2 (1906): 462–477.
Lee,
Sidney, ed. The Chronicle
History of King Leir. By
Anonymous.
London: Chatto &
Windus, 1909.
Lynch, Stephen J.
Sin Suffering, and Redemption in Leir and Lear.Shakespeare Studies 18 (1986): 161–174.
Malone, Edmond, ed. The Plays and Poems of William
Shakespeare. 10 vols.
London: J.
Rivingston and Sons, 1790.
ESTC T138858.
McMillin, Scott, and
Sally-Beth MacLean. The Queen’s Men and Their Plays.
Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1998. WSB
aw359.
Michie,
Donald, ed. A Critical
Edition of the True Chronicle History of King Leir
and His Three Daughters, Gonorill, Ragan and
Cordella. By Anonymous.
New York: Taylor
& Francis, 1991.
Mueller, Martin.
From Leir to Lear.PQ 73.2 (1994): 195–217.
Oberer, Karen.
Appropriations of the Popular Tradition in The Famous Victories of Henry V and The Troublesome Reign of King John.Locating the Queen’s Men, 1583–1603: Material Practices and Conditions of Playing. Ed. Helen Ostovich, Holger Schott Syme, and Andrew Griffin. Ashgate: Farnham, 2009, 171–182. WSB aay90.
Ostovich, Helen,
Holger Schott Syme, and
Andrew Griffin, eds. Locating the Queen’s Men, 1583–1603:
Material Practices and Conditions of
Playing. Surrey:
Ashgate, 2009.
WSB aay90.
Palmer, Barbara.
On the Road and On the Wagon.Locating the Queenʼs Men: Material Practices and Conditions of Playing, 1583–1603. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009. 27–40.
Pearson, Jacqueline. Much Ado about Nothing and King
Leir. Notes and
Queries 226/28.2 (1981):
128–129.
Pearson, Jacqueline.
The Influence of King Leir on Shakespeareʼs Richard II.Notes and Queries 226/29.2 (1982): 113–115.
Perrett, Wilfrid. The Story of King Lear from Geoffrey of
Monmouth to Shakespeare. Mayer
& Müller, 1904.
Pinciss, Gerald.
Thomas Creede and the Repertory of the Queen’s Men 1583–1592.Modern Philology 67.4 (1970): 321–330.
Roberts, David.
Henry VIII and the True Chronicle History of King Leir.Notes and Queries n.s. 48.3 (2001): 302-303.
Shakespeare,
William. King
Lear. Ed. H.H. Furness.
London: J.B.
Lippincott & Co.,
1880.
Steevens, George, ed. The True Chronicle History of King Leir and his Three Daughters. Twenty of the Plays of Shakespeare: Being the Whole Number Printed in Quarto During
his life-time, or before the Restoration. Vol. 4.
London: J. and R.
Tonson, 1766. 2K5r–2P8r. ESTC
T140378.
Stern,
Tiffany, ed. The Chronicle
History of King Leir. By
Anonymous.
London: Nick Hern
Books, 2002.
Symonds, John Addington.
Shakespeareʼs Predecessors in the
English Drama. London:
Smith, Elder, and Co.,
1884.
Tolstoy, Leo. Tolstoy on Shakespeare: A Critical Essay on
Shakespeare. Trans. V. Tchertkoff and I.M.F.. New
York: Funk and
Wagnalls, 1906.
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