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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... leaving his young family behind. There has been considerable speculation as to his reasons for leaving Stratford-upon-Avon, but no solid evidence has been found to support any of the numerous theories. Certainly London was then (as now) ...
... leaves many textual issues unresolved. The first publication of Shakespeare's collected works did not occur until 1623, several years after his death, when two of his fellow actors, John Heminges and Henry Condell, arranged to have ...
... leaves a number of outstanding questions of this kind. Why does Cordelia not find a gentler way of answering Lear while still avoiding the hypocrisy of her sisters? Why does Edgar keep up his Poor Tom disguise with the mad Lear, and in ...
... leaves a number of small questions unanswered, far more so does it leave unanswered the many large questions it raises. What is the play about? At one level, it tells a very simple story, almost like a folktale. Once upon a time there ...
... leave her? Burgundy. Pardon me, Royal Sir, Election makes not up in such conditions.5 Lear. Then leave her, Sir, for by the power that made me, I tell you all her wealth. (To France.) For you, great King, I would not from your love make ...