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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... comes too short, that I profess5 Myself an enemy to all other joys, Which the most precious square of sense6 ... come of nothing; speak. 1 wide-skirted meads Widely spread meadows. 2 self-mettle Same spirit (with perhaps a pun on “metal ...
... come of nothing; speak again. Cordelia. Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth. I love your Majesty According to my bond,1 no more nor less. Lear. How, how Cordelia? Mend your speech a little, Lest you may mar your ...
... 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 from her. Call France! Who stirs?3 ...
... come betwixt our sentences, and our power, Which, nor our nature, nor our place can 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 ...
... Come, noble Burgundy. 280 blessing (Flourish. Exeunt [all but France, Cordelia, Regan, and Gonerill].) 2 1 with regards ... point With matters, such as a dowry, that have nothing to do with love. she ... dowry Her own person is a great ...