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King Lear Fourth lecture Endings Strange to say, King Lear hasn’t always ended with the almost unbearable ending Shakespeare assigned it. In the late 17th cent. Nahum Tate, a poet and theater director, produced a version of the play that ended happily, with a romance-like conclusion. He cut the King of France from the first scene, and instead suggested a potential love between Cordelia and . . . Edgar! And at the end of his text of the play (extensively revised throughout), he had Lear save Cordelia from hanging. Edgar and Albany enter and in turn save Lear. Lear is returned to his kings