King LearSimon and Schuster, 2011 M08 23 - 384 pages Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain that it represents. Its figures harden their hearts, engage in violence, or try to alleviate the suffering of others. Lear himself rages until his sanity cracks. What, then, keeps bringing us back to King Lear? For all the force of its language, King Lear is almost equally powerful when translated, suggesting that it is the story, in large part, that draws us to the play. The play tells us about families struggling between greed and cruelty, on the one hand, and support and consolation, on the other. Emotions are extreme, magnified to gigantic proportions. We also see old age portrayed in all its vulnerability, pride, and, perhaps, wisdom—one reason this most devastating of Shakespeare’s tragedies is also perhaps his most moving. The authoritative edition of King Lear from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes: -The exact text of the printed book for easy cross-reference -Hundreds of hypertext links for instant navigation -Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play -Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play -Scene-by-scene plot summaries -A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases -An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language -An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play -Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books -An annotated guide to further reading Essay by Susan Snyder The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare’s printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit Folger.edu. |
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... speaking and our hearing. Most of his immense vocabulary is still in use, but a few of his words are not, and, worse ... speak in words and phrases that are, suddenly, rewarding and wonderfully memorable. King Lear xvi Shakespeare's ...
... speaking and our hearing. Most of his immense vocabulary is still in use, but a few of his words are not, and, worse ... speak in words and phrases that are, suddenly, rewarding and wonderfully memorable. King Lear xvi Shakespeare's ...
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... speak in a special way. Again, when we attend a good performance of the play, the actors will have worked out the sentence structures and will articulate the sentences so that the meaning is clear. In reading for yourself, do as the ...
... speak in a special way. Again, when we attend a good performance of the play, the actors will have worked out the sentence structures and will articulate the sentences so that the meaning is clear. In reading for yourself, do as the ...
Page xxi
... speak and purpose not, since what I well intend I'll do 't before I speak—that you make known It is no vicious blot, murder, or foulness, No unchaste action or dishonored step That hath deprived me of your grace and favor. . . . (1.1 ...
... speak and purpose not, since what I well intend I'll do 't before I speak—that you make known It is no vicious blot, murder, or foulness, No unchaste action or dishonored step That hath deprived me of your grace and favor. . . . (1.1 ...
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... speak When power to flattery bows? To plainness honor's bound (1.1.164–67) When majesty falls to folly. In these lines, duty, power, flattery, honor, and majesty are given the ability to speak, to feel dread, to fall, to bow, to receive ...
... speak When power to flattery bows? To plainness honor's bound (1.1.164–67) When majesty falls to folly. In these lines, duty, power, flattery, honor, and majesty are given the ability to speak, to feel dread, to fall, to bow, to receive ...
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... speak with Shakespeare's fine filed phrase, if they would speak English.” Since Meres also mentions Shakespeare's “sugared sonnets among his private friends,” it is assumed that many of Shakespeare's sonnets (not published until 1609) ...
... speak with Shakespeare's fine filed phrase, if they would speak English.” Since Meres also mentions Shakespeare's “sugared sonnets among his private friends,” it is assumed that many of Shakespeare's sonnets (not published until 1609) ...
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action actors ALBANY answer appear arms attend bear begin bring comes Cordelia CORNWALL course daughter death dost Dover Draw Duke earlier EDGAR edition Edmund Enter example exits eyes F corr father fear Folio follow Fool fortune France further give GLOUCESTER Gloucester’s gods Goneril grace hand hast hath head hear heart hold honor keep KENT kind King Lear ACT language Lear’s less letter lines live London look lord madam master means messenger nature never night notes OSWALD perhaps plays poor Pray present printed Q1 corr Q1 uncorr quartos readers reading REGAN scene SD F seek seems sentence servant Shakespeare’s shows sister speak speech stage stand suffering tell theater thee thing thou thought true turn wind