" This play ends with an epilogue spoken by the actress who plays the main female character, which ends by stating "If you like nothing you have seen today, the play your judgment damns, not you the play.
The last lines spoken in this play begin, "Our drooping country now erects her head, peace spreads her balmy wings, and plenty blooms." This play ends with an epilogue spoken by the actress who plays the main female character, which ends by stating "If you like nothing you have seen today, the play your judgment damns, not you the play." The first actor to perform this play's title character was Thomas Betterton. It was part of the standard theatrical repertoire until 1838, when William Charles Macready reverted it to a shortened version of the play on which it was based, fifteen years after Edmund Kean restored the tragic ending. For 10 points, name this play by Nahum Tate which, unlike the play it was based on, gets rid of the Fool and ends with the title character regaining his throne and Edgar marrying Cordelia.
The last lines spoken in this play begin, "Our drooping country now erects her head, peace spreads her balmy wings, and plenty blooms.
The History of King Lear [before Tate is mentioned, accept "Nahum Tate's adaptation of King Lear" and prompt on King Lear]