King Lear: Third SeriesBloomsbury Publishing, 2014 M09 25 - 455 pages 'By far the best edition of King Lear - in respect of both textual and other matters - that we now have.'John Lyon, English Language Notes'This volume is a treasure-trove of precise information and stimulating comments on practically every aspect of the Lear-universe. I know of no other edition which I would recommend with such confidence: to students, professional colleagues and also the 'educated public'.'Dieter Mehl, Shakespeare Jahrbuch, vol 134 |
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... Cordelia as Queen of France , with breastplate and sword , Act 4 , Scene 4 , in the production by John Gielgud and Anthony Quayle , Royal Shakespeare Theatre , 1950 ( courtesy of the Shakespeare Centre Library , Stratford - upon - Avon ) ...
... Cordelia as Queen of France , with breastplate and sword , Act 4 , Scene 4 , in the production by John Gielgud and Anthony Quayle , Royal Shakespeare Theatre , 1950 ( courtesy of the Shakespeare Centre Library , Stratford - upon - Avon ) ...
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... Cordelia addresses her father as ' thou ' only while he is asleep , but when he wakes she relates to him formally as ' your majesty ' in a scene that at once brings them together in great intimacy and suggests a certain distance between ...
... Cordelia addresses her father as ' thou ' only while he is asleep , but when he wakes she relates to him formally as ' your majesty ' in a scene that at once brings them together in great intimacy and suggests a certain distance between ...
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... Cordelia to speak gently to someone else ; yet it may have the negative force , if he refers to a button on his own clothes , of signalling his death as his heart bursts . Thus many ' un- ' words in the play may have a kind of ...
... Cordelia to speak gently to someone else ; yet it may have the negative force , if he refers to a button on his own clothes , of signalling his death as his heart bursts . Thus many ' un- ' words in the play may have a kind of ...
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... Cordelia returns in 4.3 to describe her father as ' Crowned ... with all the idle weeds that grow / In our sustaining corn ' , and her words serve as a stage direction for his entry in 4.6 , where , as played , for instance , by Edwin ...
... Cordelia returns in 4.3 to describe her father as ' Crowned ... with all the idle weeds that grow / In our sustaining corn ' , and her words serve as a stage direction for his entry in 4.6 , where , as played , for instance , by Edwin ...
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... Cordelia . The image John Wood offered of the mad Lear ( 4.6 ) in the 1990 production by Nicholas Hytner at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre ( Fig . 7 ) reg- isters the kind of effect achieved . He is costumed in what look like old jeans ...
... Cordelia . The image John Wood offered of the mad Lear ( 4.6 ) in the 1990 production by Nicholas Hytner at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre ( Fig . 7 ) reg- isters the kind of effect achieved . He is costumed in what look like old jeans ...
Contents
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KING LEAR | 153 |
Two textual problems | 393 |
Lineation | 403 |
Abbreviations and references | 416 |
Index | 430 |
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