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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... kingdom into three parts, and give one part to each of his three daughters. At this level, as George Orwell observed, “Lear is one of the minority of Shakespeare's plays that are unmistakably about something. For example, Macbeth is ...
... kingdoms, it appears not which of the Dukes he values most, for equalities are so weighed, that curiosity in neither can make choice of either's moiety.4 Kent. Is not this your son, my Lord? Gloucester. His breeding, Sir, hath been at ...
... kingdom; and 'tis our fast° intent, firm To shake all cares and business from our age, Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburdened crawl toward death. Our son of Cornwall, And you, our no less loving son of Albany: We have ...
... kingdom; No less in space, validity, and pleasure Than that conferred on Gonerill.7 Now our joy, Although our last and least; to whose young love, The vines of France, and milk of Burgundy, Strive to be interest. What can you say, to ...
... kingdom; if on the tenth day following, Thy banished trunk° be found in our dominions, body The moment is thy death. Away! By Jupiter,4 This shall not be revoked. Kent. Fare thee well King; sith°thus thou wilt appear, Freedom lives ...