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 xii
... notes and introductions focus on the conditions and possibilities of meaning that editors , critics and performers ( on stage and screen ) have discovered in the play . While building upon the rich history of scholarly and theatrical ...
... notes and introductions focus on the conditions and possibilities of meaning that editors , critics and performers ( on stage and screen ) have discovered in the play . While building upon the rich history of scholarly and theatrical ...
Page xiii
... notes . Act and scene divisions ( seldom present in the early editions and often the product of eighteenth - century or later scholarship ) have been retained for ease of reference , but have been given less prominence than in the ...
... notes . Act and scene divisions ( seldom present in the early editions and often the product of eighteenth - century or later scholarship ) have been retained for ease of reference , but have been given less prominence than in the ...
Page xiv
... notes for words adequately defined in the Concise Oxford Dictionary or Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary , but in cases of doubt they will include notes . Attention , however , will be drawn to places where more than one likely ...
... notes for words adequately defined in the Concise Oxford Dictionary or Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary , but in cases of doubt they will include notes . Attention , however , will be drawn to places where more than one likely ...
Page xv
... note relates to the whole of a SD within or immediately following the line . Speech prefixes ( SPs ) follow similar ... notes . In these cases the editions will include a reduced photographic facsimile of the bad quarto ' in an appendix ...
... note relates to the whole of a SD within or immediately following the line . Speech prefixes ( SPs ) follow similar ... notes . In these cases the editions will include a reduced photographic facsimile of the bad quarto ' in an appendix ...
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... note on the way the play may have been cast on the Jacobean stage . The introduction ends with a notation of conventions followed in the presentation of the text , commentary and collation . READING AND STAGING KING LEAR > Wee wondred ...
... note on the way the play may have been cast on the Jacobean stage . The introduction ends with a notation of conventions followed in the presentation of the text , commentary and collation . READING AND STAGING KING LEAR > Wee wondred ...
Contents
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KING LEAR | 153 |
Two textual problems | 393 |
Lineation | 403 |
Abbreviations and references | 416 |
Index | 430 |
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