In a later version of this play, some messages never get to Cambray due to the actions of a character who begins the story having forged and delivered a letter.
In a later version of this play, some messages never get to Cambray due to the actions of a character who begins the story having forged and delivered a letter. That character hopes that his father may be a king since his mother was unchaste, and says that he will be like Jove to Semele while attempting to rape the heroine, who asks her confidant Arante to disguise her as a man. The dedicatory epistle of that version described this play as "a heap of jewels unstrung and unpolished." In this play's fourth act, a character calls his wife "thou changed and self-covered thing" after telling her (*) "wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; filths savour but themselves." Its final scene is set at a camp near Dover, where its title character dies of grief, exclaiming "Never, never, never, never, never!" During the Restoration, audiences preferred the version of this play written by Nahum Tate, who gave it a happy ending. 
In a later version of this play, some messages never get to Cambray due to the actions of a character who begins the story having forged and delivered a letter.
King Lear [or The History of King Lear; or Nahum Tate's version of King Lear before "Nahum Tate"]