King Lear Author:Edited by Louis B. Wright and Virginia A. LaMar This edition of King Lear is designed to make available a readable text of one of Shakespeare's greatest plays. In the centuries since Shakespeare lived, many changes have occurred in the meanings of words, and some clarification of Shakespeare's vocabulary may be helpful. To provide the reader with necessary notes in the most accessible forma... more »t, we have placed them on the pages facing the text that they explain.« less