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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... person of the millennium” poll and on the World Almanac's poll listing the 10 “most influential people of the second millennium.” The fact that a playwright, a member of the popular entertainment industry, has continued to enjoy this ...
... person from the middle class. (Even Ben Jonson, one of the finest classicists of the period, did not attend university.) Shakespeare's first exposure to theater was probably through the troupes of traveling players that regularly toured ...
... person or persons—perhaps Heminge and Condell—exercised personal judgement over many of the revisions. ¶ß King Lear1 Dramatis Personae Lear, King of Britain King of France Gonerill, Lear's eldest daughter Duke of Albany, Gonerill's ...
... persons. Here's France ... Lord Most editors regard the assignment of this line to Cordelia as an error, and assign it either to Gloucester, as the Quarto does, or to Cornwall. But to have Cordelia helpfully speak to her father in a ...
... person is a great treasure. 3 wat'rish Burgundy The insult is meant to suggest that Burgundy is weak in character, like watered down Burgundy wine. 285 290 France. Bid farewell to your sisters. Cordelia. The king lear 31.