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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... theater. The present composite King Lear, based on 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 ...
... theater. The present composite King Lear, based on 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 ...
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... theater at Dorset Garden, London, in 1681, however, the appeal of his sentimentalized adaptation was so powerful that Shakespeare's play simply disappeared from the theater for a century and a half. Tate was, after all, restoring the ...
... theater at Dorset Garden, London, in 1681, however, the appeal of his sentimentalized adaptation was so powerful that Shakespeare's play simply disappeared from the theater for a century and a half. Tate was, after all, restoring the ...
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... theater managers attempted to play up the tragic grandeur of Lear, while still ducking such apparently intractable material as the blinding of Gloucester. The twentieth century embraced the bitterness of Lear as if discovering in it a ...
... theater managers attempted to play up the tragic grandeur of Lear, while still ducking such apparently intractable material as the blinding of Gloucester. The twentieth century embraced the bitterness of Lear as if discovering in it a ...
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... Theater, in which Lear, for all his arrogance, was, according to The New York Times, the victim of “a compassionless society, in which everything is usurped by the young.” Donald Sinden's Lear, in a production directed by Nunn in ...
... Theater, in which Lear, for all his arrogance, was, according to The New York Times, the victim of “a compassionless society, in which everything is usurped by the young.” Donald Sinden's Lear, in a production directed by Nunn in ...
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... revised, was remounted at New York's Vivian Beaumont Theatre at Lincoln Center in Z004. On Shakespearels stage, the effect of certain scenes in Lear must have been particularly suited to the theater for which. XXX KING LEAR ON STAGE.
... revised, was remounted at New York's Vivian Beaumont Theatre at Lincoln Center in Z004. On Shakespearels stage, the effect of certain scenes in Lear must have been particularly suited to the theater for which. XXX KING LEAR ON STAGE.
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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