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 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's suitors , representative of ' The vines of France and milk of Burgundy ' ( 1.1.84 ) , seem to belong to Shakespeare's own age , just as Cornwall and Albany have titles current in Jacobean England , and might remind an ...
... Cordelia's suitors , representative of ' The vines of France and milk of Burgundy ' ( 1.1.84 ) , seem to belong to Shakespeare's own age , just as Cornwall and Albany have titles current in Jacobean England , and might remind an ...
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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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Contents
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KING LEAR | 153 |
Two textual problems | 393 |
Lineation | 403 |
Abbreviations and references | 416 |
Index | 430 |
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