What is the comparative and superlative to the word real?

Answer 1

According to the rule of forming comparative and superlative forms of adjectives it`s a monosyllabic adj. therefore it must form its degrees by adding -er -est, but I`ve looked this word up in some academic dictionaries and they say that it must be more/ most real. Here is an example: Perhaps the most real character in any play we know of is the character of Falstaff done by Shakespeare. Here is realism as large as life... (S. O'Casey, 'The Flying Wasp', 'Green Goddess of Realism')