The End of King Lear by Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson spoke about this performance and spoke about the Undurability of Cordelia's death. He says if I sensations could any could add anything to the general suffrage I might relate that was many years ago so shocked by Cordelia’s death That I know not whether I ever endured to read again the last scenes of the play until I undertook to revise them as an editorSo we for most of our production history for King Lear we were watching a Happy ending of King Lear. We'll talk about endings shortly and whether that was a good idea or not The fact that King Lear was categorically Unperformable because if it was not unperformable in its original conception