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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... during his lifetime, but in 1623 two members of his acting company, ]ohn Heminges and Henry Condell, put together the great collection now called the First Folio. William Shakespeare 53%» KING LEAR Edited by David Bevington and.
... during his lifetime, but in 1623 two members of his acting company, ]ohn Heminges and Henry Condell, put together the great collection now called the First Folio. William Shakespeare 53%» KING LEAR Edited by David Bevington and.
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... Folio text) have perceived earlier the dire implications of their masters' evil deeds. “I'll never care what wickedness I do, / If this man come to good," says one, and his fellow agrees: “If she [Regan] live long, / And in the end meet ...
... Folio text) have perceived earlier the dire implications of their masters' evil deeds. “I'll never care what wickedness I do, / If this man come to good," says one, and his fellow agrees: “If she [Regan] live long, / And in the end meet ...
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... folio text. lt contains new material. At the same time, the quarto text contains passages not found in the folio. The revisions may have resulted from a number of circumstances: cutting for performance (the play as it stands in either ...
... folio text. lt contains new material. At the same time, the quarto text contains passages not found in the folio. The revisions may have resulted from a number of circumstances: cutting for performance (the play as it stands in either ...
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... folio text but including the 300 or so lines found only in the first quarto along with some quarto readings where the folio version seems less textually reliable, is in a sense a compromise, but it is one that seems well suited to the ...
... folio text but including the 300 or so lines found only in the first quarto along with some quarto readings where the folio version seems less textually reliable, is in a sense a compromise, but it is one that seems well suited to the ...
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... Folio and quarto texts that was probably never staged in Shakespeare's day) enabled audiences to see the distressing scenes that had so long remained unknown in the theater. Harcourt \X/illiams's production at the Old Vic in 1931, with ...
... Folio and quarto texts that was probably never staged in Shakespeare's day) enabled audiences to see the distressing scenes that had so long remained unknown in the theater. Harcourt \X/illiams's production at the Old Vic in 1931, with ...
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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