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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... —seventy-five years after Shakespeare's version was first published—the poet laureate, Nahum Tate, published a radically revised version of King Lear that would hold the stage until well into the nineteenth century. In king lear 15.
... hold the stage until well into the nineteenth century. In Tate's version, the Fool has been eliminated, and there is a happy ending: neither Lear nor Cordelia dies, and Gloucester is blinded but spared death. Cordelia loves not the King ...
... Hold thee from this forever. The barbarous Scythian,6 Or he that makes his generation messes7 To gorge his appetite, shall to my bosom 105 sun, 110 115 1 120 125 130 Be as well neighboured, pitied, and relieved,. bond Bond between ...
... Hold on to your power. 3 Answer ... judgement I'll answer with my life if I am wrong in this judgement. 175 Kent. Kill thy physician, and thy fee bestow Upon. Nor ... hollowness Nor does the lack of a loud rhetorical expression of ...
... 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 she is yours ...