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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... Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1590) • 218 The Annesley Case • from Samuel Harsnett, A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures (1603) • 223 King Lear on Stage in the Seventeenth Century • 227 from Richard Johnson, “The Ballad of ...
... Edmund (or, in the Quarto, Gonorill) says, near the end of the play, “Ask me not what I know.” If King Lear leaves a number of small questions unanswered, far more so does it leave unanswered the many large questions it raises. What is ...
... Edmund's worship of nature, for example, may lead us to question the degree to which the selfishness of Lear's two eldest daughters really should be considered “unnatural,” as Lear calls it. Is goodness natural, or is it merely part of ...
... Edmund, Gloucester's younger, bastard son Oswald, Gonerill's steward Old Man, Gloucester's tenant Curan, Gloucester's servant Fool, attending on Lear Doctor Servants, Captains, Herald, Knight, Messenger, Gentlemen, Soldiers, etc. ACT 1 ...
... Edmund? Edmund. No, my Lord. Gloucester. (To Edmund.) My Lord of Kent. Remember him hereafter, as my honourable friend. Edmund. (To Kent.) My services to your Lordship. Kent. (To Edmund.) I must love you, and sue to know you better ...