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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... France but Edgar, whom she marries at the end of the play, the pair becoming the new monarchs of Britain while Lear goes off into a happy retirement with his friends Gloucester and Kent. Tate's revised text of Lear has become a favorite ...
... France and Burgundy, my noble Lord.” In the Quarto edition this line is assigned to Gloucester, but in the Folio it is assigned to Cordelia. Whoever says the line, the same information is given to Lear, but it makes a difference to the ...
... France Gonerill, Lear's eldest daughter Duke of Albany, Gonerill's husband Regan, Lear's second daughter Duke of Cornwall, Regan's husband Cordelia, Lear's youngest daughter Duke of Burgundy 1 King Lear The present text was originally ...
... 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 express our darker. whoreson Bastard (jocular). 3 (To Edmund.) All stage directions or parts ...
... France and Burgundy, Great rivals in our youngest daughter's love, Long in our court, have made their amorous sojourn,4 And here are to be answered. Tell me, my daughters—Since now we will divest us both of rule, Interest° of territory ...