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 viii
... speaking of in a king” (4.6.ZO4—5). The play's double structure suggests another duality central to King Lear: an opposition of parable and realism, in which “divided and distinguished worlds” are bound together for instructive contrast ...
... speaking of in a king” (4.6.ZO4—5). The play's double structure suggests another duality central to King Lear: an opposition of parable and realism, in which “divided and distinguished worlds” are bound together for instructive contrast ...
Page xviii
... speak the concluding lines. Given these factors, many editions today present two or even three texts for the reader, or mark the text with brackets and other indicators of textual variation. This edition does not. X X INTRODUCTION.
... speak the concluding lines. Given these factors, many editions today present two or even three texts for the reader, or mark the text with brackets and other indicators of textual variation. This edition does not. X X INTRODUCTION.
Page xxii
... speak from offstage during his blinding and brought on Lear in time to forestall the unpalatable “fall" of Gloucester from Dover cliff. Edmund Kean, after doing well with Tate's Lear (or something close to it) in a production in 1820 ...
... speak from offstage during his blinding and brought on Lear in time to forestall the unpalatable “fall" of Gloucester from Dover cliff. Edmund Kean, after doing well with Tate's Lear (or something close to it) in a production in 1820 ...
Page xxiv
... speaking to our existential gloom (published in English in I964 as “King Lear, or Endgame,” in Shakespeare Our Contemporary) influenced what has been perhaps the most important twentieth-century interpretation of the play, Peter Bi ...
... speaking to our existential gloom (published in English in I964 as “King Lear, or Endgame,” in Shakespeare Our Contemporary) influenced what has been perhaps the most important twentieth-century interpretation of the play, Peter Bi ...
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... speak.” The moral contrasts are pointed and instructive: Cordelia (Valentina Shendrikova) is innocently beautiful, while her sisters Goneril and Regan (Elza Radzina and Galina Volchek) are repellent and coarse. The Fool (Oleg Dal) ...
... speak.” The moral contrasts are pointed and instructive: Cordelia (Valentina Shendrikova) is innocently beautiful, while her sisters Goneril and Regan (Elza Radzina and Galina Volchek) are repellent and coarse. The Fool (Oleg Dal) ...
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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