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 xvi
... 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 the old course of death, /. x viii INTRODUCTION.
... 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 the old course of death, /. x viii INTRODUCTION.
Page xxxii
... masters and wait for deliverance; massive armies determine the outcome of battle. The use of a Russian version of cinemascope facilitates an epic, widescreen vision of the sweep of history in which human figures are always seen in a ...
... masters and wait for deliverance; massive armies determine the outcome of battle. The use of a Russian version of cinemascope facilitates an epic, widescreen vision of the sweep of history in which human figures are always seen in a ...
Page xxxiii
... master, playing a sad tune on his recorder-like flute. The climactic duel between Edgar (Leonard Marzin) and his brother Edmund (Regimantis Adomaitis), amid a vast circle of soldiers, is stirringly chivalric in a way that Brook's ...
... master, playing a sad tune on his recorder-like flute. The climactic duel between Edgar (Leonard Marzin) and his brother Edmund (Regimantis Adomaitis), amid a vast circle of soldiers, is stirringly chivalric in a way that Brook's ...
Page xxxiv
... master refuses to anticipate, Leo McKern as a fleshy and gullible but well-meaning Gloucester, David Threlfall as a thoughtful Edgar, and Robert Lindsay as an Edmund whose villainy glints from his restless eyes in wellexecuted close-ups ...
... master refuses to anticipate, Leo McKern as a fleshy and gullible but well-meaning Gloucester, David Threlfall as a thoughtful Edgar, and Robert Lindsay as an Edmund whose villainy glints from his restless eyes in wellexecuted close-ups ...
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... master ready to go onstage, and whose emotional life is so bound up in catering to Finney's monstrous ego that the dresser is desolated by Sir's inevitable death at the end of the film. Life imitates art in a touching and believable ...
... master ready to go onstage, and whose emotional life is so bound up in catering to Finney's monstrous ego that the dresser is desolated by Sir's inevitable death at the end of the film. Life imitates art in a touching and believable ...
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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