Genre
King Leir has been called a "chronicle history," a "tragical history," a "tragicomedy," and even "a tragedy with a happy ending." (Leir is alive and restored to his kingship at the end of his play.) Leir does not contain the subplot about Gloucester, Edgar, and Edmund that Shakespeare added to the story.
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