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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... entered a period of steady growth in its range, as vocabulary expanded to meet the needs of an increasingly complex society. Yet its structure over this same time (no doubt in connection with the spread of print culture) was becoming ...
... (Enter Kent, Gloucester1 and Edmund.2) Kent. I thought the King had more affected3 the Duke of Albany than 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 ...
... Enter King Lear, 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 ...
... Enter Gloucester with [the King of] France, and [the. vent clamour Cry out. 3 Our ... good My royal authority now having been asserted. 4 Jupiter Supreme Roman god. 5 shape his old course Resume his accustomed (truthful) behavior ...
... Enter Gloucester with [the King of] France, and [the Duke of] Burgundy, Attendants.) 200 205 Cordelia. Here's France and Burgundy, my noble Lord.2 Lear. My Lord of Burgundy, We first address toward you, who with this King Hath rivalled ...