1606
The title page of the first printed edition of King Lear, 1608, which records the performance at Whitehall on St Stephen’s night.Image: Nathaniel Butter · Public domainculture · Europe
King Lear is played before King James
On St Stephen’s night, 26 December 1606, Shakespeare’s company, the King’s Men, performed King Lear before James I at the palace of Whitehall. It is the earliest performance of the play on record. We know of it because the first printed edition of 1608 says so on its title page. The story of an old king who divides his kingdom between his daughters had a pointed ring at the court of a king who was trying to unite England and Scotland.
Source: Folger Shakespeare Library, Shakespeare Documented: King Lear, first edition ↗
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