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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... Chronology of Shakespeare's Works Introduction The Play in Performance Further Reading KING LEAR An Account of the Text Words for Music in King Lear Commentary Follow Penguin FOUNDING EDITOR: T. J. B. SPENCER GENERAL EDITOR: STANLEY WELLS.
... Chronology of Shakespeare's Works Introduction The Play in Performance Further Reading KING LEAR An Account of the Text Words for Music in King Lear Commentary Follow Penguin FOUNDING EDITOR: T. J. B. SPENCER GENERAL EDITOR: STANLEY WELLS.
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... reading, often in close detail. Holinshed's Chronicles (1577, revised 1587), a great compendium of English, Scottish and Irish history, provided material for his English history plays. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by the ...
... reading, often in close detail. Holinshed's Chronicles (1577, revised 1587), a great compendium of English, Scottish and Irish history, provided material for his English history plays. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by the ...
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... readers, they exist fully only in performance. In these volumes we offer individual introductions, notes on language and on specific points of the text, suggestions for further reading and information about how each work has been edited ...
... readers, they exist fully only in performance. In these volumes we offer individual introductions, notes on language and on specific points of the text, suggestions for further reading and information about how each work has been edited ...
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... readings, which obliged it to serve as a parable of sin, suffering, sacrifice and redemption, despite the scant ... reading of the play on the Quarto edition published in 1608? Or should we base it on the text published in the Folio ...
... readings, which obliged it to serve as a parable of sin, suffering, sacrifice and redemption, despite the scant ... reading of the play on the Quarto edition published in 1608? Or should we base it on the text published in the Folio ...
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William Shakespeare George Hunter. the play head-on, as the reader encounters it in this edition, with the minimum preamble. Its aim is to address the issues that King Lear raises, and the problems that it poses, as they emerge from ...
William Shakespeare George Hunter. the play head-on, as the reader encounters it in this edition, with the minimum preamble. Its aim is to address the issues that King Lear raises, and the problems that it poses, as they emerge from ...
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actors ALBANY arms bastard beggar Burgundy Cordelia Cornwall daughters death dost Dover Dr Johnson Duke Duke of Albany Duke of Cornwall Edmund Elizabethan Enter Edgar Enter Lear Exeunt Exit eyes F reading father fear feel Folio follow Fool Fool’s fortune foul fiend France GENTLEMAN give Gloucester’s gods Gonerill Gonerill and Regan grace Harsnet’s hast hath heart Henry VI honour i’the justice KENT Kent’s King Lear kingdom knave knights Lear’s letter look lord madam man’s matter means nature noble nuncle o’er o’the omitted Oswald perhaps poor Poor Tom Pray presumably prose in Q Q and F Q corrected Quarto Regan Richard III scene seems sense servant Shakespeare Shakespeare’s plays sister speak speech stand storm sword tears theatrical thee There’s thine things Titus Andronicus Tom’s tragedy trumpet villain Who’s Winter’s Tale words wretches