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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... never tied off. It is this openness of the plays, their availability for reinterpretation, that enables them to be endlessly re-staged, rewritten, and re-interpreted—and to yield fresh ideas and fresh feelings time and time again. Given ...
... never before that), the suggestion has occasionally been put forward that Shakespeare never wrote the plays attributed to him, and that someone else—perhaps Francis Bacon, perhaps Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford—was actually the ...
... never chang'd word with each other in the Original. This renders Cordelia's Indifference and her Father's Passion in the first Scene probable. It likewise gives Countenance to Edgar's Disguise, making that a generous Design that was ...
... never marry like my sisters. Lear. But goes thy heart with this? Cordelia. Aye, my good Lord. Lear. So young, and so untender? Cordelia. So young, my Lord, and true. Lear. Let it be so: thy truth then be thy dower; For by the sacred ...
... never held but as pawn5 To wage against thine enemies, ne'er feared to lose it, Thy safety being motive. Lear. Out of my sight! Kent. See better Lear, and let me still remain The true blank of thine eye. Lear. Now by Apollo—6Kent. Now ...