King LearBroadview Press, 2010 M07 10 - 240 pages The text of the play included here, prepared by Craig Walker for The Broadview Anthology of British Literature, has been acclaimed for its outstanding introductory material and annotations, and for its inclusion of parellel text versions of key scenes for which the texts of the Quarto and the Folio versions of the play are substantially different. Also included in this edition are excerpts from a variety of literary source materials (including Geoffrey on Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae, the anonymous True Chronicle Historie of King Leir, and Samuel Harsnett’s A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures); material on the historical Annesley case that raised many of the same issues as does Shakespeare’s play; and the happy ending from Nahum Tate’s version of the play, which held the stage for 150 years after its first performance in 1681. |
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... Bastard/Edmund In Q, the stage directions and tag-lines begin by referring to the character as “Bastard” (or “Bast.”), and then maintain this practice throughout most of the rest of the play. F begins by using the character's name, at ...
... Bastard (jocular). 3 (To Edmund.) All stage directions or parts of stage directions appearing in square brackets have been inserted by the current editor; those appearing in round parentheses are derived from the source text. 4 study ...
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