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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... follows from our sure knowledge that Shakespeare was an actor in many of the plays that 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 ...
... follows: “Meantime we will express our darker purposes. / The map there; know we have divided / In three, our kingdom; and 'tis our first intent, / To shake all cares and business of our state, / Confirming them on younger years. / The ...
... follows: “Than that confirmed on Gonorill. But now our joy, / Although the last, not least in our dear love, / What can you say to win a third more opulent / Than your sisters'?” bond Bond between daughter and father, but also carrying ...
... follow Nicholas Rowe (1709) in inserting, prior to this line, the stage direction for Lear: “laying his hand on his sword.” It is possible, however, that they would suggest Lear restrain himself from violent outbursts, without his ...
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