King Lear, Volume 5Penguin Group USA, Incorporated, 1963 - 306 pages King Lear, one of Shakespeare's darkest and most savage plays, tells the story of the foolish and Job-like Lear, who divides his kingdom, as he does his affections, according to vanity and whim. Lear's failure as a father engulfs himself and his world in turmoil and tragedy. |
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Page xviii
... Folio contains thirty - six plays ; a thirty - seventh , Pericles , though not in the Folio , is regarded as canonical . Heminges and Condell suggest in an address " To the great variety of readers " that the republished plays are pre ...
... Folio contains thirty - six plays ; a thirty - seventh , Pericles , though not in the Folio , is regarded as canonical . Heminges and Condell suggest in an address " To the great variety of readers " that the republished plays are pre ...
Page 183
... Folio text , moreover , omits some 300 lines found in the Quarto , and thus leads to the supposition that the copy used in preparing the Folio had been col- lated with the prompt book - a shorter , acting version of the play - in the ...
... Folio text , moreover , omits some 300 lines found in the Quarto , and thus leads to the supposition that the copy used in preparing the Folio had been col- lated with the prompt book - a shorter , acting version of the play - in the ...
Page 184
... Folio , but it turns to the Quarto when the Folio is guilty of an obvious misprinting , or when it omits pertinent material found in the Quarto , or when its version seems to the editor so inferior to the Quarto version as to demand ...
... Folio , but it turns to the Quarto when the Folio is guilty of an obvious misprinting , or when it omits pertinent material found in the Quarto , or when its version seems to the editor so inferior to the Quarto version as to demand ...
Contents
PREFATORY REMARKS | vii |
INTRODUCTION | xxii |
TEXTUAL NOTE | 182 |
Copyright | |
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