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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... dear Highness' love. Cordelia. Then poor Cordelia! And yet not so, since I am sure my love's More ponderous than my tongue. Lear. To thee, and thine hereditary ever, Remain this ample third of our fair kingdom; No less in space ...
... Dear sir, forbear.7 160 165 170 2 4 1 Be Kent ... mad When you behave insanely, it calls for a breach of manners on my part. Reserve thy state Hold on to your power. 3 Answer ... judgement I'll answer with my life if I am wrong in this ...
... dear shelter take thee maid, That justly think'st, and hast most rightly said. (To Gonerill and Regan.) And your large speeches, may your deeds approve, That good effects may spring from words of love. (To Albany and Cornwall and the ...
... dear to us, we did hold her so, But now her price is fallen. Sir, there she stands; If aught within that little seeming substance—Or all of it, with our displeasure pieced And nothing more3—may fitly like your Grace, She's there, and ...
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