King Lear

Quality:

King Lear - tragedy by William Shakespeare. This book is the 152^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 148^th most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article “King Lear” in English Wikipedia has 95.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 219 references and 33 sections.

This article has the best quality in Bulgarian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 9771^st most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 148^th most popular in books in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9657^th most popular in AI.

The 152^nd most popular in books.

In June 2025 the article “King Lear” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “King Lear”, its content was written by 835 registered users of English Wikipedia (9771^st place) and edited by 2569 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9657^th place).

King Lear is on the 148^th place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 152^nd place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 2383 times in English Wikipedia and cited 11143 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #641 in May 2004
• Global: #2273 in March 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3399 in May 2018
• Global: #5274 in October 2018

There are 46 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Bulgarian (bg) Крал Лир		100
2	English (en) King Lear		95.49
3	German (de) König Lear		87.1429
4	Indonesian (id) Raja Lear		82.4374
5	Swedish (sv) Kung Lear		71.3721
6	Russian (ru) Король Лир		63.5792
7	Chinese (zh) 李爾王		62.6393
8	French (fr) Le Roi Lear		61.3624
9	Portuguese (pt) Rei Lear		43.7383
10	Ukrainian (uk) Король Лір		42.3288

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) King Lear		12 764 651
2	Spanish (es) El rey Lear		1 609 786
3	Japanese (ja) リア王		1 432 628
4	Russian (ru) Король Лир		1 353 166
5	German (de) König Lear		1 159 286
6	French (fr) Le Roi Lear		1 131 802
7	Italian (it) Re Lear		987 442
8	Chinese (zh) 李爾王		754 460
9	Portuguese (pt) Rei Lear		590 366
10	Polish (pl) Król Lear		410 988

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) King Lear		56 412
2	Japanese (ja) リア王		5 921
3	Russian (ru) Король Лир		5 436
4	German (de) König Lear		3 977
5	Spanish (es) El rey Lear		3 772
6	French (fr) Le Roi Lear		2 833
7	Italian (it) Re Lear		2 675
8	Chinese (zh) 李爾王		2 558
9	Portuguese (pt) Rei Lear		2 322
10	Persian (fa) شاه لیر		2 065

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) King Lear		835
2	German (de) König Lear		195
3	French (fr) Le Roi Lear		180
4	Italian (it) Re Lear		144
5	Russian (ru) Король Лир		118
6	Spanish (es) El rey Lear		108
7	Dutch (nl) Koning Lear		66
8	Hebrew (he) המלך ליר		62
9	Norwegian (no) Kong Lear		61
10	Japanese (ja) リア王		60

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) King Lear		3
2	German (de) König Lear		2
3	Russian (ru) Король Лир		2
4	French (fr) Le Roi Lear		1
5	Indonesian (id) Raja Lear		1
6	Ukrainian (uk) Король Лір		1
7	Arabic (ar) الملك لير		0
8	Belarusian (be) Кароль Лір		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Крал Лир		0
10	Catalan (ca) El Rei Lear		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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