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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... god, Llyr); but Shakespeare's audience believed Lear to have been a historical figure. That fact makes Shakespeare's alterations to the story seem strikingly audacious—most notably, his changing of the ending; in earlier versions the ...
... gods: they kill us for their sport.” And elements in one line of story sometimes cast a different and surprising light on both narrative and thematic narrative elements in the other. Edmund's worship of nature, for example, may lead us ...
... gods in vain. Lear. O, Vassal! Miscreant! Albany and Cordelia. Dear sir, forbear.7 160 165 170 2 4 1 Be Kent ... mad ... God associated not only with clear sight, but also with archery (the world of the play is nominally pagan). 7 Dear ...
... gods to their dear shelter take thee maid, That justly think'st, and hast most rightly said. (To Gonerill and Regan ... god. 5 shape his old course Resume his accustomed (truthful) behavior. distracted is far from implausible, and could ...
... Gods, Gods! 'Tis strange, that from their cold'st neglect My love should kindle to inflamed respect. 265 270 (To Lear.) 275 Thy dowerless daughter, King, thrown to my chance, Is Queen of us, of ours, and our fair France. Not all the ...