Leir

The play is based on the legend of Leir of Britain, a mythological pre-Roman king.

Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009

The play is based on the legend of Leir of Britain, a mythological pre-Roman king.

Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009

What's more, she said, "King Lear" was itself an experimental riff on "King Leir," an anonymously written play that preceded it.

Experiments in Madness Lizzie Simon 2011

And about Dr. Roger Leir, whom the pair watched perform surgery on someone putatively afflicted by an alien implant.

The Listener 2010

And about Dr. Roger Leir, whom the pair watched perform surgery on someone putatively afflicted by an alien implant.

The Listener 2010

'Leir' was a real crowd-pleaser, but now nobody even knows that play exists.

Experiments in Madness Lizzie Simon 2011

One cannot ignore Shakespeare because he borrowed extensively from someone else's King Leir, any more than we can eject Coleridge from the Romantic canon because he had a cribbing habit to accompany his opium habit.

Plagiary 2006

One cannot ignore Shakespeare because he borrowed extensively from someone else's King Leir, any more than we can eject Coleridge from the Romantic canon because he had a cribbing habit to accompany his opium habit.

The Little Professor: 2006

With the exception of Leir, everyone was helpful and understanding . . . although I was annoyed when my request to keep the disenfranchised gall bladder was dismissed because of recently enacted OSHA regulations.

Archive 2006-09-01 Mac 2006

Cymbeline is like King Lear in that both plays are named after legendary kings of England in the shadowy prehistory that England's early chroniclers, beginning with Geoffrey of Monmouth (c. 1 f 36), had filled largely with fictitious names and exploits in order to account for the long years of which little or nothing was known: Lear or Leir, Gorboduc, Ferrex, Porrex, Cymbeline, and others.

Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002