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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... sisters? Why does Edgar keep up his Poor Tom disguise with the mad Lear, and in the presence of his blinded and remorseful father? Why does Kent maintain his disguise until the last scene of the play? Why does the Fool appear only at ...
... sister, And prize me3 at her worth. In my true heart, I find she names my very deed4 of love; Only she comes too ... sisters'? Speak. Cordelia. Nothing my Lord. Lear. Nothing? Cordelia. Nothing. 75 80 85 90 95 100 Lear. Nothing will come ...
... sisters husbands, if they say They love you all? Happily, when I shall wed, That Lord, whose hand must take my plight,2 shall carry Half my love with him, half my care, and duty. Sure I shall never marry like my sisters. Lear. But goes ...
... own 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.
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