King Lear (1623)

Summary: First Folio (F1) version of William Shakespeare's King Lear; printed 1623

Physical description: 1 volume: 22cm x 33cm (8.5" x 13")

Held by: Horace Howard Furness Memorial [Shakespeare] Library, Department of Special Collections, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania [call number: Furness fV90 1623]

Facsimile note: The pages of the text appear at approximately one and a half times the size of the original. Their exact size will vary with monitors. They have been adjusted for clarity and visibility. No other alterations or enhancements have been made. These adjustments may occasionally result in color and brightness variations which exaggerate those of the original.

• Preliminary Leaves, including:
  
  1. B[en] I[onson], "To the Reader"
  2. title page
  3. Iohn Heminge and Henry Condell, dedication
  4. Idem., "To the great Variety of Readers"
  5. table of contents
  6. Ben: Ionson, "To the memory of my beloued, the author"
  7. Hugh Holland, "Vpon the Lines and Life of . . . William Shakespeare"
  8. L. Digges, "To the memorie of . . . W. Shakespeare," and I[ohn] M[arston], "To the memorie of M. W. Shake-speare"
  9. "Names of Principall Actors"
  
  
• Act-Scene Index
  Links below move to the beginning of each indicated scene. Act-scene divisions are those provided in the original text and differ in some instances from those given in modern edited texts.

  Act	Scenes
  One	One	Two	Three	Four	Five
  Two	One	Two
  Three	One	Two	Three	Four	Five	Six	Seven
  Four	One	Two	Three	Four	Five	Seven [sic]
  Five	One	Two	Three

• Page and Line-number Index
  Links in the chart below move to individual pages of the facsimile. Upper citations refer to page numbers; lower citations refer to first lines of facsimile pages (in act.scene.line number notation). Act, scene, and line numbers are keyed to and based upon those provided in The Riverside Shakespeare (act-scene divisions differ slightly from those identified in the original text).

  		283 I.i.1	284 I.i.91	285 I.i.208
  286 I.ii.19	287 I.ii.178	288 I.iv.80	289 I.iv.244	290 I.iv.363
  291 II.i.47	292 II.ii.33	293 II.ii.165	294 II.iv.89	295 II.iv.203
  296 III.i.3	297 III.ii.90	298 III.iv.84	299 III.v.18	300 III.vii.41
  301 IV.i.48	302 IV.iv.5	303 IV.iv.36	304 IV.iv.168	305 IV.iv.291
  306 V.i.7	307 V.iii.25	38 [sic] V.iii.138	309 V.iii.262