View Image

Shakespeare's Play

Play
  • King Lear
Act
Scene

Adaptations

Dramatic Adaptation
Play
König Lear
Authors
  • Schröder, Friedrich Ludwig
Year
1778
Opera Adaptation
Title
Composer
Librettists
Year

Image Details

Author
  • Henschel Brothers
From a drawing by
Year
1805-1811
Title
Re Lear (August Iffland)
Technique
drawing
Specific Technique
Size
Place of Conservation
Berlin (DE), Gesellschaft für Theatergeschichte
Place of Production
Germany
Illustrated Edition
Description
Re Lear (Iffland)
Characters Depicted
  • Lear
Actors Depicted
  • Iffland, August Wilhelm

Staging

Title
König Lear
Director
  • Iffland, August Wilhelm
Company
A.W. Iffland (König Lear), F. Unzelmann (Cordelia), A. Bethmann (Gloster), H. Mattausch (Kent), J. Beschort (Edgar), J.G. Gern (Edmund), L. Gottlieb Rebenstein (Hofnarr)
Theatre / Place of Representation
Berlin (DE), Nationaltheater
Date
12/7/1810
Venue of Première
Berlin (DE), Nationaltheater
Date of Première
1805

Image

Image
Set
IM-6
Annotations
La serie, composta da 14 disegni, ritrae Iffland nelle sue recite a Berlino fra il 1805 e il 1811. L'adattamento di Schröder, usato da Iffland durante tutta la carriera, si basa sulla traduzione in prosa realizzata da Wieland nel 1762
Image ID
6