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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... Stage and on Film, © 1988, ZOO4 by David Bevington and David Scott Kastan Memorable lines © I988, Z004 by Bantam Books Annotated bibliography © I988, Z004 by David Scott Kastan and Iames Shapiro Valuable advice on staging matters has ...
... Stage and on Film, © 1988, ZOO4 by David Bevington and David Scott Kastan Memorable lines © I988, Z004 by Bantam Books Annotated bibliography © I988, Z004 by David Scott Kastan and Iames Shapiro Valuable advice on staging matters has ...
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... Stage xxiii King Lear on Film xxxii The Playhouse xlv KING LEAR l Date and Text Z50 Textual Notes 253 Sl1z1kespeare'sSnurces 258 Further Reading Z90 Memorable Lines 296 INTRODUCTION ¢§§>' In King Lear, Shakespeare pushes to its limit.
... Stage xxiii King Lear on Film xxxii The Playhouse xlv KING LEAR l Date and Text Z50 Textual Notes 253 Sl1z1kespeare'sSnurces 258 Further Reading Z90 Memorable Lines 296 INTRODUCTION ¢§§>' In King Lear, Shakespeare pushes to its limit.
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... stage of fools,” an endless torment: “the first time that we smell the air / We wawl and cry” (4.6.179—83). Gloucester's despair takes the form of accusing the gods of gleeful malice toward humanity: “As flies to wanton boys are we to ...
... stage of fools,” an endless torment: “the first time that we smell the air / We wawl and cry” (4.6.179—83). Gloucester's despair takes the form of accusing the gods of gleeful malice toward humanity: “As flies to wanton boys are we to ...
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... stage for about 150 years. David Garrick restored some of Shakespeare's lines, and Edmund Kean restored the tragic ending, but it was not until 1838 that King Lear was again performed more or le as the dramatist wrote it. One of ...
... stage for about 150 years. David Garrick restored some of Shakespeare's lines, and Edmund Kean restored the tragic ending, but it was not until 1838 that King Lear was again performed more or le as the dramatist wrote it. One of ...
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... stage), censorship, errors in transcription, and still more. The folio version does alter some matters especially having to do with the French invasion; characters like Albany appear in a different light. The very ending is changed as ...
... stage), censorship, errors in transcription, and still more. The folio version does alter some matters especially having to do with the French invasion; characters like Albany appear in a different light. The very ending is changed as ...
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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