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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Page xvi
... ideas in what I have written will take it as a compliment . I am immensely grateful to the many individuals who have helped me in however slight ways , and wish I could name them all . Among scholars and critics with a special interest ...
... ideas in what I have written will take it as a compliment . I am immensely grateful to the many individuals who have helped me in however slight ways , and wish I could name them all . Among scholars and critics with a special interest ...
Page xvii
... ideas . The research embodied in my book Hamlet vers Lear : Cultural Politics and Shakespeare's Art ( Cambridge , 1993 ) made the preparation of this edition much easier than it might have been . Some material in the Introduction is ...
... ideas . The research embodied in my book Hamlet vers Lear : Cultural Politics and Shakespeare's Art ( Cambridge , 1993 ) made the preparation of this edition much easier than it might have been . Some material in the Introduction is ...
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... idea of the play as Shakespeare's ' greatest achievement ' but ' too huge for the stage ' ( Bradley , 247 , 261 ) persisted into the twentieth century . It is in the decades since the Second World War that King Lear has come to be fully ...
... idea of the play as Shakespeare's ' greatest achievement ' but ' too huge for the stage ' ( Bradley , 247 , 261 ) persisted into the twentieth century . It is in the decades since the Second World War that King Lear has come to be fully ...
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... ideas , sources , analogues and influences . This is followed by a consideration of the problems thrown up by the two texts of the play , the Quarto of 1608 and the first Folio of 1623 , which differ in many respects . The next part of ...
... ideas , sources , analogues and influences . This is followed by a consideration of the problems thrown up by the two texts of the play , the Quarto of 1608 and the first Folio of 1623 , which differ in many respects . The next part of ...
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... idea of human beings as equal and all addressed as ' you ' ; Shakespeare reflects his world in making use of differences in his dramas . He does this most obviously by the way he distributes verse and prose to distinguish social levels ...
... idea of human beings as equal and all addressed as ' you ' ; Shakespeare reflects his world in making use of differences in his dramas . He does this most obviously by the way he distributes verse and prose to distinguish social levels ...
Contents
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KING LEAR | 153 |
Two textual problems | 393 |
Lineation | 403 |
Abbreviations and references | 416 |
Index | 430 |
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