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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... Cornwall, Regan's husband Cordelia, Lear's youngest daughter Duke of Burgundy 1 King Lear The present text was originally prepared for The Broadview Anthology of British Literature by Craig Walker. The first Folio edition is used as the ...
... Cornwall. Gloucester. It did always seem so to us, but now, in the division of the kingdoms, it appears not which of the Dukes he values most, for equalities are so weighed, that curiosity in neither can make choice of either's moiety.4 ...
... Cornwall, Albany, Gonerill,7 Regan, Cordelia, and attendants.) Lear. Attend the Lords of France and Burgundy, Gloucester. Gloucester. I shall, my Lord. (Exit.) 2 1 by order of law Legitimately born. 35 40 45 Lear. Meantime we shall ...
... Cornwall, And you, our no less loving son of Albany: We have this hour a constant will to publish2 Our daughters' several3 dowers, that future strife May be prevented now. The Princes, France and Burgundy, Great rivals in our youngest ...
... Cornwall? Regan. I am made of that self-mettle2 as my sister, And prize me3 at her worth. In my true heart, I find she names my very deed4 of love; Only she comes too short, that I profess5 Myself an enemy to all other joys, Which the ...