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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... noble to whom he dedicated two substantial poems of mythological narrative, Venus and Adonis (1593) and The Rape of Lucrece (1594). (It is a measure of the enormity of Shakespeare's achievement that these poems, which would be regarded ...
... Noble Kinsmen, which was written in collaboration with a younger playwright, John Fletcher, and Pericles, of which it appears Shakespeare was not the sole author, were both excluded, although the editors did include Henry VIII, which is ...
... Noble Kinsmen (c. 1613) all date from after his move to Stratford. By the time he left London Shakespeare was indeed a relatively wealthy man, with substantial investments both in real estate and in the tithes of the town (an ...
... noble Lord.” In the Quarto edition this line is assigned to Gloucester, but in the Folio it is assigned to Cordelia. Whoever says the line, the same information is given to Lear, but it makes a difference to the way in which we may ...
... noble gentleman, Edmund? Edmund. No, my Lord. Gloucester. (To Edmund.) My Lord of Kent. Remember him hereafter, as my honourable friend. Edmund. (To Kent.) My services to your Lordship. Kent. (To Edmund.) I must love you, and sue to ...