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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... Lord Chamberlain's Men (later called The King's Men, when James I became their patron). Professional theater in London did not become firmly established until 1576, when the first permanent playhouses opened. By the late 1580s four ...
... Lord Chamberlain's Men, and it was in that capacity rather than as a playwright or actor that he made a good deal of money. There was at the time no equivalent to modern laws of copyright, or to modern conventions of payment to the ...
... 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 way in which we may interpret ...
... Lord? Gloucester. His breeding, Sir, hath been at my charge.5 I have so often blushed to acknowledge him, that now I am brazed6 to it. 10 Kent. I cannot conceive7 you. 2 1 Gloucester Occasionally in the first Folio edition (hereafter F) ...
... Lord. Gloucester. (To Edmund.) My Lord of Kent. Remember him hereafter, as my honourable friend. Edmund. (To Kent.) My services to your Lordship. Kent. (To Edmund.) I must love you, and sue to know you better. Edmund. Sir, I shall study ...