King LearPenguin UK, 2005 M04 7 - 368 pages 'The most perfect specimen of the dramatic art existing in the world' Percy Bysshe Shelley |
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... quartos, so called because they were made from printers' sheets folded twice to form four leaves (eight pages). None of them shows any ... quarto editions are badly printed, and the fact that some plays exist in two, or even three, early.
... quartos, so called because they were made from printers' sheets folded twice to form four leaves (eight pages). None of them shows any ... quarto editions are badly printed, and the fact that some plays exist in two, or even three, early.
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... Quarto edition published in 1608? Or should we base it on the text published in the Folio edition of Shakespeare's plays in 1623, which differs from the Quarto in a number of important respects? Or should we base it on a text which ...
... Quarto edition published in 1608? Or should we base it on the text published in the Folio edition of Shakespeare's plays in 1623, which differs from the Quarto in a number of important respects? Or should we base it on a text which ...
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... that in 1606 King Lear 'was played before the King's Majesty at Whitehall upon St Stephen's night in Christmas holidays', as the title page of the 1608 Quarto puts it. What King James and his court made of his company's play is.
... that in 1606 King Lear 'was played before the King's Majesty at Whitehall upon St Stephen's night in Christmas holidays', as the title page of the 1608 Quarto puts it. What King James and his court made of his company's play is.
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... Quarto underlines their affinity by giving second billing, after the life and death of Lear and his daughters, not to the life of Gloucester, but to 'the unfortunate life of Edgar, son and heir to the Earl of Gloucester, and his sullen ...
... Quarto underlines their affinity by giving second billing, after the life and death of Lear and his daughters, not to the life of Gloucester, but to 'the unfortunate life of Edgar, son and heir to the Earl of Gloucester, and his sullen ...
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