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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... married to Anne Hathaway, who was eight years his senior. Six months later, in May of 1583, Anne gave birth to their ... marriage. In February 1585, twins, named Hamnet (Shakespeare's only son, who was to die at the age of eleven) and ...
... marry like my sisters. Lear. But goes thy heart with this? Cordelia. Aye, my good Lord. Lear. So young, and so ... marriage. 3 mysteries of Hecate Rites of the goddess of witchcraft and crossroads (F reads “miseries,” clearly an error) ...
... marry her!5 I do invest you jointly with my power, Preeminence, and all the large effects That troop with majesty.6 Ourself, by monthly course, With reservation of7 an hundred knights, By you to be sustained, shall our abode Make with ...
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