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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... 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 Declaration of Egregious ...
... daughter, Susanna; given the timing, it seems reasonable to speculate that an unexpected pregnancy may have prompted a sudden marriage. In February 1585, twins, named Hamnet (Shakespeare's only son, who was to die at the age of eleven) ...
... daughter, Susanna (described in her epitaph as 1 In his early years in London Shakespeare may well have acquired much of his reading material from Richard Field, a man from Stratford-upon-Avon of about Shakespeare's age who was in the ...
... daughters. At this level, as George Orwell observed, “Lear is one of the minority of Shakespeare's plays that are unmistakably about something. For example, Macbeth is about ambition, Othello is about jealousy, and Timon of Athens is ...
... daughters really should be considered “unnatural,” as Lear calls it. Is goodness natural, or is it merely part of a veneer of civilization that we have been taught? That is one more of the large questions that this play, perhaps more ...