King LearRandom House Publishing Group, 2009 M08 4 - 272 pages A king foolishly divides his kingdom between his scheming two oldest daughters and estranges himself from the daughter who loves him. So begins this profoundly moving and disturbing tragedy that, perhaps more than any other work in literature, challenges the notion of a coherent and just universe. The king and others pay dearly for their shortcomings–as madness, murder, and the anguish of insight and forgiveness that arrive too late combine to make this an all-embracing tragedy of evil and suffering. Each Edition Includes: • Comprehensive explanatory notes • Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship • Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English • Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories • An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography |
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... Text Key Facts The Tragedy of King Lear Textual Notes Quarto Passages That Do Not Appear CONTENTS vii vii ix X xii xviii xxix 1 122 in the Folio 130 Scene - by - Scene Analysis 142 King Lear in Performance : The RSC and Beyond 156 Four ...
... Text Key Facts The Tragedy of King Lear Textual Notes Quarto Passages That Do Not Appear CONTENTS vii vii ix X xii xviii xxix 1 122 in the Folio 130 Scene - by - Scene Analysis 142 King Lear in Performance : The RSC and Beyond 156 Four ...
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... Quarto and Folio versions of the text - suggest that the lesson has been learned that Stoic comfort will not do , that it is better to speak what we feel than what we ought to say . The Folio's ascription of this speech to Edgar makes ...
... Quarto and Folio versions of the text - suggest that the lesson has been learned that Stoic comfort will not do , that it is better to speak what we feel than what we ought to say . The Folio's ascription of this speech to Edgar makes ...
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... text of the plays . Without editions there would be no Shakespeare . That is why every twenty years or so throughout ... Quarto " edi- tions , some of which reproduced good quality texts , others of which were to a greater or lesser degree ...
... text of the plays . Without editions there would be no Shakespeare . That is why every twenty years or so throughout ... Quarto " edi- tions , some of which reproduced good quality texts , others of which were to a greater or lesser degree ...
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... Quarto text it is Albany who speaks the final speech , an ascription that has been fol- lowed by many editors since Alexander Pope . Thanks to the textual scholarship of the late twentieth century , the new answer is something like this ...
... Quarto text it is Albany who speaks the final speech , an ascription that has been fol- lowed by many editors since Alexander Pope . Thanks to the textual scholarship of the late twentieth century , the new answer is something like this ...
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... text , moving between Quarto and Folio readings , making choices on either aesthetic or bibliographic grounds , and creating a composite text that Shake- speare never actually wrote . How , then , did editors deal with the following ...
... text , moving between Quarto and Folio readings , making choices on either aesthetic or bibliographic grounds , and creating a composite text that Shake- speare never actually wrote . How , then , did editors deal with the following ...
Contents
Textual Notes | 122 |
ScenebyScene Analysis | 142 |
The RSC and Beyond | 156 |
Shakespeares Career in the Theater | 203 |
A Chronology | 218 |
References | 226 |
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Act 4 Scene actor Adrian Noble Alack Albany Albany's Antony Antony Sher audience bastard beggar blind Brian Cox Burgundy Cordelia Corin Redgrave CORNWALL daughters death disguised dost Dover Duke Duke of Cornwall Edgar editors Edmund Enter Lear Exeunt Exit eyes father feel Following fortune France GENTLEMAN give gods Goneril Goneril and Regan grace hath heart human Ian McKellen Jonathan Bate KENT KENT LEAR King Lear kingdom knave LEAR FOOL LEAR KENT Lear's letter Lines look lord madam messenger Michael Gambon nature night nuncle performance Peter Brook pity played Lear poor Pray production Q corrected Q uncorrected Quarto text Regan role Royal Shakespeare Company running scene sense servant Shake Shakespeare sister speak speech stage storm tell theater thee there's thine things Tragedy traitor Trevor Nunn trumpet villain