Editing King Lear (section)

==Characters==
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* [[Leir of Britain|'''Lear''']] – King of Britain
* '''[[Goneril]]''' – Lear's eldest daughter
* '''[[Regan (King Lear)|Regan]]''' – Lear's middle daughter
* '''[[Cordelia (King Lear)|Cordelia]]''' – Lear's youngest daughter
* '''[[Shakespearean fool|The Fool]]''' – attendant on Lear
* '''Duke of Albany''' – Goneril's husband
* '''Duke of Cornwall''' – Regan's husband
* '''King of France''' – suitor and later husband to Cordelia
* '''Duke of Burgundy''' – suitor to Cordelia
* '''Earl of Gloucester''' – loyal to Lear
* '''Edgar''' – Gloucester's first-born son
* '''[[Edmund (King Lear)|Edmund]]''' – Gloucester's illegitimate son
* '''Earl of Kent''' – loyal to Lear
* '''Oswald''' – Goneril's steward
* '''Doctor''' – attends on Cordelia
* '''Curan''' – Gloucester's servant
* '''Old Man''' – tenant of Gloucester
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'''Notable casts'''
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! rowspan="1" |Character
! Broadway <br/> revival <br/> <small> (1956) </small>
! West End <br/> revival <br/> <small> (1962) </small>
! Broadway <br/> revival <br/> <small> (1968) </small>
! Broadway <br/> revival <br/> <small> (2004) </small>
! West End <br/> revival <br/> <small> (2007) </small>
! West End <br/> revival <br/> <small> (2010) </small>
! Off-Broadway <br/> revival <br/> <small> (2011) </small>
! Broadway <br/> revival <br/> <small> (2019) </small>
!Off-West End<br/> revival <br/> <small> (2024) </small><ref>{{Cite web |title=King Lear |url=https://almeida.co.uk/whats-on/king-lear/#cast-creatives |access-date=2025-05-25 |website=Almeida Theatre |language=en-US}}</ref><small> </small>
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!Lear
| align="center" , |[[Orson Welles]] || align="center" , |[[Paul Scofield]] || align="center" , |[[Lee J. Cobb]] || align="center" , |[[Christopher Plummer]] || align="center" , |[[Ian McKellen]] || align="center" , |[[Derek Jacobi]] || align="center" , |[[Sam Waterston]] || align="center" , |[[Glenda Jackson]] || align="center" |[[Danny Sapani]]
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!Goneril 
| align="center" |[[Geraldine Fitzgerald]] || align="center" |[[Irene Worth]] || align="center" |[[Marilyn Lightstone]] || align="center" |[[Domini Blythe]] || align="center" |[[Frances Barber]] || align="center" |[[Gina McKee]] || align="center" |Enid Graham || align="center" |[[Elizabeth Marvel]] || align="center" |Ayika Henry
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!Regan
| align="center" |Sylvia Short || align="center" |[[Patience Collier]] || align="center" |[[Patricia Elliott]] || align="center" |[[Lucy_Peacock_(actress)|Lucy Peacock]] || align="center" |[[Monica Dolan]] || align="center" |Justine Mitchell || align="center" |[[Kelli O’Hara]] || align="center" |[[Aisling O'Sullivan]] || align="center" |Faith Omole
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!Cordelia 
| align="center" |[[Viveca Lindfors]] || align="center" |[[Diana Rigg]] || align="center" |Barbette Tweed || align="center" |Claire Jullien || align="center" |[[Romola Garai]] || align="center" |[[Pippa Bennett-Warner]] || align="center" |[[Kristen Connolly]] || align="center", rowspan=2|[[Ruth Wilson]] 
|Gloria Obianyo
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!The Fool 
|align="center" |[[Alvin Epstein]] || align="center" |[[Alec McCowen]] || align="center" |[[René Auberjonois]] || align="center" |Barry MacGregor || align="center" |[[Sylvester McCoy]] || align="center" |[[Ron Cook]] || align="center" |[[Bill Irwin]] || align="center" |[[Clarke Peters]]
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!Duke of Albany  
|align="center" |[[Sorrell Booke]] || align="center" |[[Peter Jeffrey]] || align="center" |[[Charles Cioffi]] || align="center" |Guy Paul || align="center" |[[Julian Harries]] || align="center" |[[Tom Beard]] || align="center" |Richard Topol || align="center" |Dion Johnstone || align="center" |Geoffrey Lumb
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!Duke of Cornwall 
|align="center" |[[Thayer David]] || align="center" |[[Tony Church]] || align="center" |John Devlin || align="center" |[[Stephen Russell]] || align="center" |[[Guy Williams (actor)|Guy Williams]] || align="center" |Gideon Turner || align="center" |[[Frank Wood (actor)|Frank Wood]] || align="center" |[[Russell Harvard]] || align="center" |Edward Davis
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!King of France 
|align="center" |Robert Blackburn || align="center" |Barry MacGregor || align="center" |[[Robert Phalen]] || align="center" |[[Christopher Randolph]] || align="center" |[[Ben Addis]] || align="center" |Ashley Zhangazha || align="center" |Michael Izquierdo || align="center" |Ian Lassiter || align="center" |Steffan Rizzi
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!Duke of Burgundy  
|align="center" |Walter Matthews || align="center" |[[Tony Steedman]] || align="center" |Bill Moor || align="center" |[[Eric Sheffer Stevens]] || align="center" |Peter Hinton || align="center" |Stefano Braaschi || align="center" |Che Ayende || align="center" |[[Justin Cunningham]] || align="center" |Oliver Cudbill
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!Earl of Gloucester 
|align="center" |[[Lester Rawlins]] || align="center" |[[Alan Webb (actor)|Alan Webb]] || align="center" |William Myers || align="center" |[[James Blendick]] || align="center" |[[William Gaunt]] || align="center" |[[Paul Jesson]] || align="center" |[[Michael McKean]] || align="center" |[[Jayne Houdyshell]] || align="center" |[[Michael Gould (actor)|Michael Gould]]
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!Edgar 
|align="center" |Robert Fletcher || align="center" |[[Brian Murray (actor)|Brian Murray]] || align="center" |[[Robert Phalen]] || align="center" |[[Brent Carver]] || align="center" |Ben Meyjes || align="center" |[[Gwilym Lee]] || align="center" |[[Arian Moayed]] || align="center" |Sean Carvajal || align="center" |[[Matthew Tennyson]]
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!Edmund  
|align="center" |[[John Colicos]] || align="center" |[[James Booth]] || align="center" |[[Stacy Keach]] || align="center" |[[Geraint Wyn Davies]] || align="center" |[[Philip Winchester]] || align="center" |[[Alec Newman]] || align="center" |[[Seth Gilliam]] || align="center" |[[Pedro Pascal]] || align="center" |[[Fra Fee]]
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!Earl of Kent 
|align="center" |Roy Dean || align="center" |[[Brewster Mason]] || align="center" |[[Philip Bosco]] || align="center" |[[Benedict Campbell]] || align="center" |[[Jonathan Hyde]] || align="center" |Michael Hadley || align="center" , colspan=2|[[John Douglas Thompson]] || align="center" |Alec Newman
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!Oswald  
|align="center" |[[Francis Carpenter (actor)|Francis Carpenter]] || align="center" |[[Clive Swift]] || align="center" |Tom Sawyer || align="center" |Andy Prosky || align="center" |John Hefferman || align="center" |Amit Shah || align="center" |Michael Crane || align="center" |[[Matthew Maher (actor)|Matthew Maher]] || align="center" |Hugo Bolton
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!Doctor 
|align="center" |Walter Matthews || align="center" |Gareth Morgan || align="center" |William Myers || align="center" |William Cain || align="center" |Russell Byrne || align="center" |N/A || align="center" |Craig Bockhorn || align="center" |N/A || align="center" |N/A
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!Curan 
|align="center" |Tom Clancy || align="center" |Philip Brack || align="center" |Jerome Dempsey || align="center" |[[Eric Sheffer Stevens]] || align="center" |Seymour Matthews || align="center" |N/A || align="center" |Herb Foster || align="center" |N/A || align="center" |Oliver Cudbill
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!Old Man 
|align="center" |N/A || align="center" |Michael Burrell || align="center" |Don McHenry || align="center" |Leo Leyden || align="center" |N/A || align="center" |Derek Hutchinson || align="center" |[[Herb Foster]] || align="center" |Stephanie Roth || align="center" |N/A
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