6. The original ending of King Lear wasn’t performed for nearly 150 years because it was thought too upsetting. In its place was a heavy-handed adaptation by 17th-century playwright Nahum Tate, who blue-pencilled the tragic double death of Lear and his favourite daughter Cordelia. In Tate's version Lear lives out his last years in retirement, while Cordelia gets hitched to Edgar.
6.《李爾王》的原始結尾在長達150年的時間里沒有上演過，因為人們認為它太悲傷了。17世紀，劇作家內厄姆塔特拙劣的修改了它，使得原作中李爾王和他最愛的女兒考狄利婭兩人雙雙死去的悲劇性結尾化為烏有。在塔特的版本里，李爾王在退休后得以安享天年，而考狄利婭則和埃德加終成眷屬。

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