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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... Leir and his Three Daughters (1605) • from Raphael Holinshed, The Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1577, 1587) • 214 from Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1590) • 218 The Annesley Case • from Samuel Harsnett, A ...
... Leir, which had been first performed in 1594 and was published in 1605, the same year Shakespeare's play was first performed. Today, Lear is regarded by historians as based more upon legend than upon fact (he appears to have been ...
... then disappear in Act Three? Interestingly, in the old anonymous play, King Leir—so much cruder a work in many respects—far greater care is taken to give apprehensible motives to the characters 16 william shakespeare.
... Leir. It is the most highly developed subplot in Shakespearean drama, and opens up a variety of thematic and theatrical parallels with the main story—parallels that substantially broaden and deepen the impact of the play as a whole. On ...
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