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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... hand.) A vital characteristic of Shakespeare's plays is their extraordinary richness of language. After several centuries of forging a new tongue out of its polyglot sources, the English language in the sixteenth century had entered a ...
... hand other than Shakespeare's. First, we know that Shakespeare was dead by the time that the First Folio was prepared, and it seems unlikely that he would have concerned himself with the preparation of one of his plays for publication ...
... hand must take my plight,2 shall carry Half my love with him, half my care, and duty. Sure I shall never marry like my sisters. Lear. But goes thy heart with this? Cordelia. Aye, my good Lord. Lear. So young, and so untender? Cordelia ...
... hand on his sword.” It is possible, however, that they would suggest Lear restrain himself from violent outbursts, without his having made any threat of actual violence. It is also possible that Kent's continued defiance of the King ...
... hand, Duchess of Burgundy. Lear. Nothing, I have sworn. I am firm. Burgundy. (To Cordelia.) I am sorry then you have so lost a father, That you must lose a husband. Cordelia. Peace be with Burgundy, Since that respect and fortunes are ...