He acted the part of King Lear.
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Lear
//lɪɹ//
Synonyms for "lear" (4 found)
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Armenian
1 entries- Լիր name (name of a legendary early king of Britain, the central character in Shakespeare's King Lear)
Russian
1 entries- Лир name (name of a legendary early king of Britain, the central character in Shakespeare's King Lear)
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Millôr Fernandes, who translated four of Shakespeare's plays (Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, and The Merry Wives of Windsor) into Portuguese, did not speak English.
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when all other helpes she saw to faile, / She turnd her selfe backe to her wicked leares / And by her deuilish arts thought to preuaile [...].
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'Foul befa' him and his lear too! It maun be o' some new-fangled kind, I think. Our auld minister had lear enough, baith Hebrew and Latin, and he believed in witches and warlocks, honest man, like ony ither sober, godly person.'
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