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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... bear his name as author. If Shakespeare had not written the plays himself it would surely have been impossibly difficult to conceal that fact from the rest of the company, in rehearsal as well as in performance, over the course of many ...
... bears the weight of great expectations. King Lear was probably written in 1605, which makes it one of Shakespeare's later plays, from about four-fifths of the way through his career. The story of Lear had been around since at least the ...
... bear; Our potency made good,3 take thy reward. Five days we do allot thee for provision, To shield thee from disasters of the world, And on the sixth to turn thy hated back Upon our kingdom; if on the tenth day following, Thy banished ...
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