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http://www.bartleby.com/46/3/

Scene-indexed HTML of the complete text; search feature.

http://jollyroger.com/library1/TheTragedieofKingLearebook.html

Unindexed text of the complete play, links to a forum and live chat.

http://larryavisbrown.homestead.com/files/Lear/lear_home.htm

Complete text, with Quarto and Folio variations indicated, plus full annotation and notes on production interpretations.

King Lear

http://www.engl.uvic.ca/Faculty/MBHomePage/ISShakespeare/Lear/Lear.TOC.html

Full text from the University of Victoria, Canada.

King Lear

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/MobLear.html

University of Virginia's electronic text center.

King Lear F1

http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/SCETI/PrintedBooksNew/index.cfm?TextID=lear_f1&PagePosition=1

The 1623 First Folio edition of King Lear.

King Lear Q2

http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/SCETI/PrintedBooksNew/index.cfm?TextID=lear_q2&PagePosition=1

The "1608" [i.e., 1619] quarto edition of King Lear.

Literature Network: King Lear

http://www.online-literature.com/shakespeare/kinglear/

Scene-indexed HTML of the complete text. Summary, search feature, and author information.

LiteratureClassics.com: King Lear

http://www.literatureclassics.com/etexts/136

A searchable and downloadable HTML version of Shakespeare's play, with various other features.

MaximumEdge: King Lear

http://www.maximumedge.com/shakespeare/kinglear.htm

Scene-indexed and searchable.

MIT: King Lear

http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/lear/index.html

Scene-indexed HTML of the complete text.

Nahum Tate's Lear

http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/SCETI/PrintedBooksNew/index.cfm?TextID=lear_tate&PagePosition=76

Facsimile of Nahum Tate's adaptation of King Lear.

Pope's Lear

http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/SCETI/PrintedBooksNew/index.cfm?TextID=lear_pope&PagePosition=1

King Lear, as edited by Alexander Pope, 1723.

Renascence Editions: King Lear

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/shake/lear.html

Unindexed HTML of the complete text.

Shakespeare Literature: King Lear

http://www.shakespeare-literature.com/King_Lear/index.html

Full text indexed by scene.

Tate's Lear

http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/SCETI/PrintedBooksNew/index.cfm?TextID=lear_tate&PagePosition=1

Nahum Tate's The History of King Lear, 1681.

The Tragedy of King Lear

http://william-shakespeare.biz/william-shakespeare/william-shakespeare-biography-pictures-life-sonne

Full text of the play.

William Shakespeare info: King Lear

http://www.william-shakespeare.info/shakespeare-play-king-lear.htm

Plot summary, first performances, and quotes.

William Shakespeare: The Tragedy of King Lear

http://www.literaturepage.com/read/shakespeare_kinglear.html

Full text.