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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... telling stories; their innovative dramatic qualities; the characters that populate them (and the ways in which these characters are created); the issues and ideas the plays explore (and the ways in which they explore them)—all these ...
... tell great stories. Fundamental, psychologically sophisticated stories, about love, death, growing up, families, communities, guilt, revenge, jealousy, order and disorder, self-knowledge and identity. Another, just as surely, is that ...
... Tell me, my daughters—Since now we will divest us both of rule, Interest° of territory, cares of state—ownership Which of you shall we say doth love us most, That we, our largest bounty may extend Where nature doth with merit challenge ...
... tell thee thou dost evil. Lear. Hear me, recreant°; on thine allegiance, hear me! apostate That thou hast sought to make us break our vows, Which we durst° never yet; and with dared strained° pride, forced To come betwixt our sentences ...
... tell you all her wealth. (To France.) For you, great King, I would not from your love make such a stray, To match you where I hate; therefore, beseech you T'avert your liking a more worthier way, 210 owns 215 220 2 1 Flourish Fanfare to ...