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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Page xii
... sense than the Quarto's to Albany , since Edgar's stripping down in Act 3 is an exposure to feel- ing , occurring in conjunction with Lear's feeling with and for the poor , which makes him the character better prepared to voice this ...
... sense than the Quarto's to Albany , since Edgar's stripping down in Act 3 is an exposure to feel- ing , occurring in conjunction with Lear's feeling with and for the poor , which makes him the character better prepared to voice this ...
Page xv
... sense of our world . We need plays . That is why , four centuries on , we keep going back to Shakespeare and his dazzling mirror world in which everyone is a player . Looked at in one way , the world of King Lear , with its images of ...
... sense of our world . We need plays . That is why , four centuries on , we keep going back to Shakespeare and his dazzling mirror world in which everyone is a player . Looked at in one way , the world of King Lear , with its images of ...
Page xxiv
... sense of place , we have relegated locations to the explanatory notes at the foot of the page , where they are given at the beginning of each scene where the imag- inary location is different from the one before . We have emphasized ...
... sense of place , we have relegated locations to the explanatory notes at the foot of the page , where they are given at the beginning of each scene where the imag- inary location is different from the one before . We have emphasized ...
Page xxvii
... sense is given , commas indicate shades of related meaning , slashes alternative or double meanings . Textual Notes at the end of the play indicate major departures from the Folio . They take the following form : the reading of our text ...
... sense is given , commas indicate shades of related meaning , slashes alternative or double meanings . Textual Notes at the end of the play indicate major departures from the Folio . They take the following form : the reading of our text ...
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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