Note 315 — RAGLAN CASTLE, Monmouthshire. (continued 3)

In the “Shakspeare,” edited by the late poet Campbell, it is thought that the parts of Gloucester and Edgar are taken from the story of the Paphlagonian King in Sir Philip Sydney’s “Arcadia.” There was also a play, entitled “The True Chronicle Historie of King Leare and his 3 Daughters,” entered at Stationers’ Hall in 1594, which kept possession of the stage several years, and must have been familiar to Shakspeare himself.