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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... poor In large part, then, Tate's revision was his attempt to rationalize the play, to tie up some of what he regarded as its loose ends. It is indeed a play that leaves a number of outstanding questions of this kind. Why does Cordelia ...
... poor, and speech unable; Beyond all manner of so much, I love you. Cordelia. What shall Cordelia speak? Love, and be silent. 50 55 60 1 darker purpose Hidden intention. The equivalent speech in the Quarto version is substantially ...
... poor Cordelia! And yet not so, since I am sure my love's More ponderous than my tongue. Lear. To thee, and thine hereditary ever, Remain this ample third of our fair kingdom; No less in space, validity, and pleasure Than that conferred ...
... poor, Most choice forsaken, and most loved despised, Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon, Be it lawful I take up what's cast away. Gods, Gods! 'Tis strange, that from their cold'st neglect My love should kindle to inflamed respect ...
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