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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... Kent. Tate's revised text of Lear has become a favorite bête noir among historians of drama, but we should beware of jeering; a reluctance to embrace tragic endings is widespread in many eras, including our own, and in Tate's day many ...
... in the notes, and for the scenes in which the degree of divergence between the two is greatest both versions are provided on facing pages. Earl of Kent Earl of Gloucester Edgar, Gloucester's elder son, 20 william shakespeare King Lear.
... 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 values ...
... Kent. I cannot wish the fault undone, the issue of it being so proper. Gloucester. But I have a son, Sir, by order ... Kent. Remember him hereafter, as my honourable friend. Edmund. (To Kent.) My services to your Lordship. Kent. (To ...
... Kent. Good my Liege—Lear. Peace, Kent! Come not between the dragon1 and his wrath. I loved her most, and thought to set my rest2 On her kind nursery. Hence, and avoid my sight! So be my grave, my peace, as here I give Her father's heart ...