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One of my favorite Shakespeare spinoffs is a pre-quel to _King Lear_: _Seven Lears_ by Howard Barker. It's a fascinating play which follows Lear from his boyhood up to about the time _King Lear_ is supposed to begin. Barker worked from the question of why the mother of Lear's daughters is apparently erased from the family's memory in Shakespeare's text. It's a bit experimental in style. I have both acted in it and taught it in conjunction with _King Lear_. Carolyn Coulson-Grigsby [log in to unmask]