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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... sense of temporal and spatial illusion of a sort quite new to the English stage. 1 From the nineteenth century onwards (though, perhaps tellingly, never before that), the suggestion has occasionally been put forward that Shakespeare ...
... sense wish theirs may be, in ease, retirement, and the conversation of his friends. He had the good fortune to gather together an estate equal to his occasion, and, in that, to his wish; and is said to have spent some years before his ...
... / he has been raised at my expense. 6 brazed Brazened. 7 conceive Understand; Gloucester then puns on the word in the sense of “become pregnant by.” whoreson Bastard (jocular). 3 (To Edmund.) All stage directions or king lear 21.
... sense Invaluable state of the well-balanced mind. 7 The following lines are substantially different in the Quarto text. The Quarto reads as follows: “Than that confirmed on Gonorill. But now our joy, / Although the last, not least in ...
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