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 vii
... scenes of trial, Lear's mad arraignment of the absent Goneril and Regan and then the cruel imposition of the mere “form of justice" on the pinioned Gloucester (3.6 and 3.7), we begin to measure the extent to which justice and injustice ...
... scenes of trial, Lear's mad arraignment of the absent Goneril and Regan and then the cruel imposition of the mere “form of justice" on the pinioned Gloucester (3.6 and 3.7), we begin to measure the extent to which justice and injustice ...
Page viii
William Shakespeare David Bevington, David Scott Kastan. the storm scenes and especially at Dover, the sad comfort they derive from sharing the wreckage of their lives calls forth piercing eloquence against the stench of mortality. The ...
William Shakespeare David Bevington, David Scott Kastan. the storm scenes and especially at Dover, the sad comfort they derive from sharing the wreckage of their lives calls forth piercing eloquence against the stench of mortality. The ...
Page xiv
... scenes. justice, for example, is portrayed in two sharply contrasting scenes: the mere “form of justice” by which Cornwall condemns Gloucester for treason (3.7.Z6) and the earnestly playacted trial by which the mad Lear arraigns Goneril ...
... scenes. justice, for example, is portrayed in two sharply contrasting scenes: the mere “form of justice” by which Cornwall condemns Gloucester for treason (3.7.Z6) and the earnestly playacted trial by which the mad Lear arraigns Goneril ...
Page xxi
... scene of the division of the kingdom; nevertheless, Garrick still omitted the King of France and the Fool and retained the love of Edgar and Cordelia, leading up to the happy ending. George Colman the elder suffered a serious failure in ...
... scene of the division of the kingdom; nevertheless, Garrick still omitted the King of France and the Fool and retained the love of Edgar and Cordelia, leading up to the happy ending. George Colman the elder suffered a serious failure in ...
Page xxii
... at the Lyceum Theatre in 1892, Henry Irving eliminated Gloucester's blinding and nine other scenes, leaving the play “considerably reO (*1 U': CI: '-H duced,” though for the most part, according to The Times,. KING LEAR ON STAGE XXV.
... at the Lyceum Theatre in 1892, Henry Irving eliminated Gloucester's blinding and nine other scenes, leaving the play “considerably reO (*1 U': CI: '-H duced,” though for the most part, according to The Times,. KING LEAR ON STAGE XXV.
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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