Queen Lear

Queen Lear in regal attire on a throne, with her three daughters standing beside her.

A play by William Shakespeare about a mother who must decide how to divide her lands and titles among her three daughters.

The play was the first commissioned by Shakespeare’s new patron, Eleanor the Eighteenth, upon the former’s relocation to New Bordeaux at the behest of the Empress.

Shakespeare hands a script to Empress Eleanor the Eighteenth in a sunlit palace chamber.
Shakespeare presents the script of ‘Queen Lear’ to Empress Eleanor XVIII in her palace.