Lear writes that Potter " had in fact created a new form of animal fable in: one in which anthropomorphic animals behave as real animals with true animal instincts ", and a form of fable with anatomically correct illustrations drawn by a scientifically minded artist.

Even when Lear and Cordelia are captured together, this madness persists as Lear envisions a nursery in prison, where Cordelia ’ s sole existence is for him.

( Even Norman Lear, who created All in the Family and had some hand in all of its other spin-offs, had no credited involvement in Gloria.

* December 26 ( St. Stephen's night ) – First recorded performance of Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear, before King James I of England in the banqueting hall of Whitehall Palace.

If this were a test, it would make most sense for Lear to hear out all three daughters before starting to divide the kingdom.

After appearing as Frank Elgin in Winter Journey at the St James's April 1952, he rejoined the Stratford company in 1953 ( together with his actress wife Rachel Kempson ) appearing as Shylock, King Lear and Antony in Antony and Cleopatra, also playing Antony when the company transferred to the Prince's Theatre in November 1953 before touring in the Netherlands, Belgium and Paris.

In 2007 he directed the RSC productions of King Lear and The Seagull, which played at Stratford before embarking on a world tour ( including the Brooklyn Academy of Music ) and then playing at the New London Theatre from November 2007.

* December 26 ( St. Stephen's Day ) – Shakespeare's King Lear is performed at Court before King James I.

The fool speaks the prophecy lines, which he tells — largely ignored — to Lear before disappearing from the play altogether.

Shakespeare's King Lear contains the word, in the general sense of a fool, and before him, Thomas Nashe, in Summer's Last Will and Testament ( 1592, printed 1600 ): " the Idiot, our Playmaker.

Thomas Nashe also alluded to the chant in Have with You to Saffron-Walden, written nine years before King Lear., the earliest version can be found in The Red Ettin of 1528.

Among the memorable performances ( including some from before Papp had the Delacorte for his Shakespeare ) were George C. Scott's Obie-award winning Richard III in 1958 ; Colleen Dewhurst's Kate, Lady Macbeth, Cleopatra ( opposite George C. Scott's Mark Antony ), and Gertrude ; the Prince Hamlet of Stacy Keach opposite Dewhurst's Gertrude with James Earl Jones ' King Claudius, Barnard Hughes's Polonius and Sam Waterston's Laertes ; Sam Waterston's Hamlet ( opposite the Gertrude of Ruby Dee ) with the Laertes of John Lithgow and Andrea Marcovicci's Ophelia ; the Benedick and Beatrice of Sam Waterston and Kathleen Widdoes in Much Ado About Nothing with Barnard Hughes's Keystone Kops version of Dogberry ; the early work of Meryl Streep as Isabella in Measure for Measure ; Mary Beth Hurt as Randall Duk Kim's daughter in Pericles ; James Earl Jones as King Lear ( 1973 ) with Rosalind Cash and Ellen Holly as his wicked daughters ; Raul Julia as Edmund in Jones ' 1973 King Lear, as Osric to Keach's Hamlet, and as Proteus ( in a musical adaptation of Two Gentlemen of Verona which transferred to a Broadway run ).

Communications Company was formed in 1974 when Norman Lear joined up with comedian Jerry Perenchio, a year before Lear's split with Yorkin.

Conversely, Frank Kermode, in the Riverside Shakespeare, considers the publication of Leir to have been a response to performances of Shakespeare's already-written play ; noting a sonnet by William Strachey that may have verbal resemblances with Lear, Kermode concludes that " 1604-5 seems the best compromise ".

So, a true-life scandal with noteworthy parallels to the Leir / Lear story was in the news in 1603 and 1604, and may have helped to inspire both Shakespeare's play and the publication of the old play King Leir.

Nonsense verse and song, like that of Edward Lear and Lewis Carol, has been a major part of publication for children and some of this has been absorbed by children, while many verses seem to have been invented by children themselves.

King Lear is also a literary variant of a common fairy tale, Love Like Salt, Aarne-Thompson type 923, in which a father rejects his youngest daughter for a statement of her love that does not please him.

At the end of Act IV of King Lear, Edgar, disguised as the Poor Tom, the crazy beggar, babbles " Child Rowland to the dark tower came ", an allusion itself to the fairy tale of Childe Rowland.

In the same year he performed Pea Green Boat, a stand-up show which revolved around the deconstruction of the Edward Lear poem The Owl and the Pussycat and a tale of his own broken toilet.

Anthropophagic giants are mentioned in The Complaynt of Scotland in 1549, the Opies note, and, in King Lear of 1605, they indicate, Shakespeare alludes to the Fee-fi-fo-fum chant (" ... fie, foh, and fumme, / I smell the blood of a British man "), making it certain he knew a tale of " blood-sniffing giants ".

In 1901, as Lear explains, a Potter family friend and sometime poet, Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley, set Potter's tale into " rather dreadful didactic verse and submitted it, along with Potter's illustrations and half her revised manuscript, to Frederick Warne & Co .," which had been among the original rejecters.

* a tale of the emperor Theodosius, the same in its main features as that of Shakespeare's King Lear ;

By the Shakespearean period, these ancient texts still maintained a currency demonstrated by King Lear based on the ancient tale of Leir of Britain which names Corineus the eponymous founder of the Cornish nation ; he traditionally wrestled the giant Goemagot into the sea at Plymouth Hoe and claimed the land beyond for his people ; the probable origin of the tale of Jack the Giant Killer.

The idea, or possibility, of female centaurs was certainly known in early modern times, as evidenced by Shakespeare's King Lear, Act IV, Scene vi, ln. 124 – 125:

The only two significant big-screen performances of Shakespeare's text date from the early 1970s: Grigori Kozintsev was working on his Korol Lir at the same time as Peter Brook was filming his King Lear.

Paul Scofield, as Lear, eschews sentimentality: this demanding old man with a coterie of unruly knights provokes audience sympathy for the daughters in the early scenes, and his presentation explicitly rejects the tradition ( as Daniel Rosenthal describes it ) of playing Lear as " poor old white-haired patriarch ".

Two early overtures survive from this period, Goetz de Berlichingen ( 1883 ) and Le Roi Lear ( 1883 ).

Most players produced a mechanical click when switching programs, although early Lear players switched silently.

While he has won screen acclaim, no-one who saw his ravaged King Lear at Stratford, while still in his early forties, will forget his superb double act with a red-nosed Antony Sher as the Fool sitting on his master's knee like a ventriloquist's doll.

A commission by the Teatro San Carlo in Naples in early 1857 led Verdi to begin to oversee the finalization of the libretto ( also by Somma ) for Re Lear with the aim of presenting the finished opera during the 1858 carnival season.

Almost all production business jets, such as General Dynamics ' Gulfstream and the Gates Lear Jet ( now built by Bombardier ), have had two or three engines, though the Jetstar, an early business jet, had four.

Lear Radio Laboratories was the source of an early step to miniaturization in electronics.

In the early 1970s, Lear backed the Foxjet ST600 with its first order.

In addition to the avant-garde art movements, early surrealist comedy is found in the satirical and comedic elements of works of modern authors, who, like Lear and Carroll, wrote stories which dispensed with the normal rules of logic.

In Britain during the 1950s and early 1960s comedians such as Charlie Drake and The Goons frequently appeared in the top ten with humorous rock ' n ' roll records-the latter, along with Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, were to influence the word-play of John Lennon's lyrics.

An early monograph arguing that the difference between the quarto and folio versions of King Lear indicated authorial revision was largely unpersuasive when it appeared in the 1930s ; however, the argument was taken up by later critics and has proved influential in recent critical and editorial practice.

In the early years, Yorkin and Lear initially established Tandem specifically for television production.

Though most dramas met with great success, it is in his later years ( marked by the early reign of James I ) that he wrote what have been considered his greatest plays: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, and The Tempest, a tragicomedy that inscribes within the main drama a brilliant pageant to the new king.

In early 2007, Lear Corporation completed the transfer of substantially all of its former North American Interior Systems Division to International Automotive Components Group ( IAC ), a joint venture of Lear, WL Ross & Co., and Franklin Mutual Advisers.

* RFC 3617 – Uniform Resource Identifier ( URI ) Scheme and Applicability Statement for the Trivial File Transfer Protocol ( TFTP ), E. Lear, October 2003.

On October 7, 1963, Lear Jet started test flights on the Learjet 23, the first mass produced business jet.

* King Lear ( Royal Shakespeare Company ) 14 September-28 October 1989 ( 1248 )

Like Ludwig Devrient, Krauss collapsed while performing King Lear and died on 20 October 1959, passing the ring to Josef Meinrad, his original choice in 1954.

Routh, the third of four children, was born in Norwalk, Iowa, on October 9, 1979, the son of Catherine ( née Lear ), a teacher, and Ronald Ray Routh, a carpenter.

Alan William Lear ( October 26 1953 – December 26, 2008 ) was a Scottish writer of science fiction and horror, whose credits included the 1984 BBC Radio 4 play Why Not Take All of Me?