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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... exit and the re-entry of any character, thereby further fostering the creation of a sense of temporal and spatial illusion of a sort quite new to the English stage. 1 From the nineteenth century onwards (though, perhaps tellingly, never ...
... (Exit.) 2 1 by order of law Legitimately born. 35 40 45 Lear. Meantime we shall express our darker. whoreson Bastard (jocular). 3 (To Edmund.) All stage directions or parts of stage directions appearing in square brackets have been ...
... (Exit.) 2 1 Kill ... disease Sarcastic reference to the way Lear is punishing those who are loyal to him and rewarding those who are disloyal. (Flourish.1 Enter Gloucester with [the King of] France, and [the. vent clamour Cry out. 3 Our ...
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