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Open book: left page text of King Lear Act III Scene 4; right page photo of a dramatic heath scene with figures.

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Fotoreproductie van een prent naar een schilderij door Benjamin West, voorstellend een scene uit Koning Lear door William Shakespeare, RP-F-2001-7-197-90, Benjamin West (1854), Wikimedia Commons. Via artnap.com

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A photographic reproduction of an engraved plate showing a scene from King Lear, after a painting by Benjamin West, appears on the right page of an open book. The left page carries the text of Act III, Scene 4, with the stage direction for a part of a heath with a hovel.

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