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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... hath been at my charge.5 I have so often blushed to acknowledge him, that now I am brazed6 to it. 10 Kent. I cannot conceive7 you. 2 1 Gloucester Occasionally in the first Folio edition (hereafter F) and throughout the first Quarto ...
... hath been out5 nine years, and away he shall again. The King is coming. 25 30 (Sennet.6 Enter King Lear, Cornwall, Albany, Gonerill,7 Regan, Cordelia, and attendants.) Lear. Attend the Lords of France and Burgundy, Gloucester ...
... Hath rivalled for our daughter. What, in the least, Will you require in present dower with her, Or cease your quest of love? Burgundy. Most Royal Majesty, I crave no more than hath your Highness offered—Nor will you tender less? Lear ...
... hath deprived me of your grace and favour, But even for want of that for which I am richer: A still soliciting eye,5 and such a tongue, That I am glad I have not, though not to have it, Hath lost me in your liking. Lear. Better thou had ...
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