Riverside Shakespeare Company
In 1985 the Riverside Shakespeare Company presented the New York premiere of "The History of King Lear", adapted with a happy ending by 18th-century English Poet Laureate, Nahum Tate, from William Shakespeare's "King Lear". The production was directed by W. Stuart McDowell, produced by Andrew B. Harris, who had joined Riverside as its executive director at the beginning of the season.
Nahum Tate
Tate wrote the libretto for Henry Purcell's opera "Dido and Aeneas"; its first known performance was in 1689. He also wrote the text for Purcell's Birthday Ode "Come Ye Sons of Art" in 1694. Tate also translated "Syphilis sive Morbus Gallicus", Girolamo Fracastoro's Latin pastoral poem on the subject of the disease of syphilis, into English heroic couplets.