King LearBristol Classical Press, 1987 - 247 pages |
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Page xvii
... Tate's re - writing , The History of King Lear . Tate's play itself was repeatedly reworked , and emended by reference to Shakespeare or to individual taste : George Coleman , for example , staged a version in 1768 with the love affair ...
... Tate's re - writing , The History of King Lear . Tate's play itself was repeatedly reworked , and emended by reference to Shakespeare or to individual taste : George Coleman , for example , staged a version in 1768 with the love affair ...
Page 97
... Tate's text it is the finale of the act , the remaining four lines ( shared between Goneril and Albany ) being either drowned in the applause for the protagonist , or cut by him before- hand . Garrick used Tate's version of the speech ...
... Tate's text it is the finale of the act , the remaining four lines ( shared between Goneril and Albany ) being either drowned in the applause for the protagonist , or cut by him before- hand . Garrick used Tate's version of the speech ...
Page 147
... Tate had , the material of III.6 . Macready moved from this line of the Fool to Tate's lines at this point , ' Kent : Defend his wits , good heaven ! / Lear : What's your name ? ' then to Shakespeare's version of the speech placed next in ...
... Tate had , the material of III.6 . Macready moved from this line of the Fool to Tate's lines at this point , ' Kent : Defend his wits , good heaven ! / Lear : What's your name ? ' then to Shakespeare's version of the speech placed next in ...
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