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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... speeches; and in crafting sparkling dialogue. A third is that the characters within the stories are uniquely engaging and memorable. In large part this can be attributed to Shakespeare's ingenuity: within the English literary tradition ...
... speech; and on several occasions a particular speech is assigned to different characters in the two editions. An early instance of this is the assignment of a line in the first scene: “Here's France and Burgundy, my noble Lord.” In the ...
... 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 shorter. It ...
... speech a little, Lest you may mar your fortunes. Cordelia. Good my Lord, You have begot me, bred me, loved me. I return those duties back as are right fit: Obey you, love you, and most honour you. Why have my sisters husbands, if they ...
... speeches, may your deeds approve, That good effects may spring from words of love. (To Albany and Cornwall and the others.) Thus Kent, O Princes, bids you all adieu, He'll shape his old course,5 in a country new. 195 (Exit.) 2 1 Kill ...