The History of King Lear
The History of King Lear is an adaptation by Nahum Tate of William Shakespeare's "King Lear". It first appeared in 1681, some seventy-five years after Shakespeare's version, and is believed to have replaced Shakespeare's version on the English stage in whole or in part until 1838.
Prahallada Nataka
Prahallada Nataka ( "Prahallāda Nāṭaka"), or simply called "Raja Nata" (also Prahlada Nataka, Raja Nataka, Sangeeta Prahlada Nataka), is a traditional theatre form native to the Indian state of Odisha. Consisting of music, dance and drama, it retells the story of Vishnu's man-lion "avatar", Nrusingha or Narasimha. It is primarily based on a text written by Raja Ramakrusna Chhotaraya, King of "Jalantara", a small kingdom in former southern Odisha, now in the Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh. A typical performance lasts for 12 hours. The complete play, as enacted in royal courts of Odisha's southern "gadajatas," often took as long as seven nights. To this day, fifty troupes still continue to perform Prahallada Nataka throughout the year in the villages of Ganjam and Gajapati.