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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... lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakespeare, witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugared sonnets among his private friends, etc.” Such circulation among “private friends” was common practice at the time, and was not ...
... live throughout the years he had spent in London, and the move has often been referred to as a “retirement ... Lives, of which Shakespeare made extensive use.) Shakespeare also lodged for a time in London with a French Huguenot family ...
... lives of the main protagonists and eliminating the Fool Tate was essentially returning the story to its original pattern. In the preface to his 1681 revision of King Lear, Tate explained some of his reasons for undertaking an alteration ...
... lives hence, and banishment is here. 180 185 since (To Cordelia.) 190 The gods to their dear shelter take thee maid, That justly think'st, and hast most rightly said. (To Gonerill and Regan.) And your large speeches, may your deeds ...
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