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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... nature about Shakespeare. Shakespeare (whose surname also appears on various documents as Shakespear, Shakspere, Shaxpere, and Shagspere) was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon on 26 April 1564. Reasonable conjecture, given the customs of ...
... nature, for example, may lead us to question the degree to which the selfishness of Lear's two eldest daughters really should be considered “unnatural,” as Lear calls it. Is goodness natural, or is it merely part of a veneer of ...
... nature doth with merit challenge.5 Gonerill, Our eldest born, speak first. Gonerill. Sir, I love you more than word ... nature ... challenge Where natural affection is equal to merit. 2 4 65 70 Lear. Of all these bounds even from this ...
... nature, nor our place can bear; Our potency made good,3 take thy reward. Five days we do allot thee for provision, To shield thee from disasters of the world, And on the sixth to turn thy hated back Upon our kingdom; if on the tenth day ...
... Nature is. distracted is far from implausible, and could have dramatic force. 3 with our ... nothing more With the addition of my displeasure and nothing else (i.e., without any dowry). 4 strangered Made a stranger, disowned. 5 Election ...