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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... appears on various documents as Shakespear, Shakspere, Shaxpere, and Shagspere) was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon on 26 April 1564. Reasonable conjecture, given the customs of the time, suggests that he was born two-to-four days ...
... appearing for the first time, and four others for the first time in a reliable edition. (Two Noble Kinsmen, which was written in collaboration with a younger playwright, John Fletcher, and Pericles, of which it appears Shakespeare was ...
... appears to have been extremely well regarded in his lifetime; soon after his death a consensus developed that his work—his plays in particular—constitute the highest achievement in English literature. In some generations he has been ...
... appears to have been derived from the Celtic god, Llyr); but Shakespeare's audience believed Lear to have been a ... appear within the twentieth century; for most of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Hamlet held pride of place ...
... appear only at the beginning of Lear's trials and 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 ...