King LearRandom House Publishing Group, 2013 M06 12 - 352 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 ix
... brother, Edmund, who scoffs at religion and undertakes to manipulate those around him for personal gain; on the other hand, Edgar's story grows increasingly improbable as he undertakes a series of disguises and emerges finally as an ...
... brother, Edmund, who scoffs at religion and undertakes to manipulate those around him for personal gain; on the other hand, Edgar's story grows increasingly improbable as he undertakes a series of disguises and emerges finally as an ...
Page xxi
... too-improbable suicide by the timely arrival of Lear. ('0 U': Ch >-1 T-7 U7 (I7 /,Cordelia, and later his brother Charles as Edmund and then as. ]ohn Philip Kemble (with his sister, Sarah Siddons, as. xxiv KING LEAR ON STAGE.
... too-improbable suicide by the timely arrival of Lear. ('0 U': Ch >-1 T-7 U7 (I7 /,Cordelia, and later his brother Charles as Edmund and then as. ]ohn Philip Kemble (with his sister, Sarah Siddons, as. xxiv KING LEAR ON STAGE.
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William Shakespeare David Bevington, David Scott Kastan. Cordelia, and later his brother Charles as Edmund and then as Edgar) began with Garrick's Lear in 1788 but reverted to a slightly restored version of Tate's in 1792. This version ...
William Shakespeare David Bevington, David Scott Kastan. Cordelia, and later his brother Charles as Edmund and then as Edgar) began with Garrick's Lear in 1788 but reverted to a slightly restored version of Tate's in 1792. This version ...
Page xxxii
... brother Edmund with a massive ax blow to the neck before their encounter can be shaped into anything like the chivalric duel that seems called for in the text. The Fool (jack MacGowran) offers gnomic companionship for Lear but ...
... brother Edmund with a massive ax blow to the neck before their encounter can be shaped into anything like the chivalric duel that seems called for in the text. The Fool (jack MacGowran) offers gnomic companionship for Lear but ...
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... brother Edmund (Regimantis Adomaitis), amid a vast circle of soldiers, is stirringly chivalric in a way that Brook's version is deliberately not. Dmitri Shostakovich's music underscores the tragic “weight of this sad time" as expressed ...
... brother Edmund (Regimantis Adomaitis), amid a vast circle of soldiers, is stirringly chivalric in a way that Brook's version is deliberately not. Dmitri Shostakovich's music underscores the tragic “weight of this sad time" as expressed ...
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Alack ALBANY bastard blind brother Burgundy Charles Dickens Child Rowland Cordelia CORNWALL D. H. Lawrence daughters dear death disguised doth Dover Duke Duke of Cornwall Edith Wharton Edmund Enter Edgar Enter Lear Exeunt Exit eyes father fear film flatter folio follow FOOL fortune France Fyodor Dostoevsky GENTLEMAN give Gloucester's gods GONERIL Goneril and Regan grace hast hath hear heart heavens honor horse i'th Jane Austen justice KENT King Lear kingdom knave Lear's Leir Leonatus letter lord madam master means MESSENGER nature never night noble nuncle Perillus pity play play's Plexirtus poor pray princes quarto RAGAN REGAN royal scene servants Shakespeare sister Skalliger speak stage stand storm Stratford-upon-Avon suffering sword Telenor tell theater thee There's thine thou art traitor trumpet unto villain wicked sisters William Shakespeare wretched