King Lear

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Pearson/Longman, 2005 - 264 pages

From Longman's new Cultural Editions Series, King Lear, edited by Claire McEachern, presents the play along with a critical introduction and contextual materials from the era of Shakespeare.

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Contents

The Texts of King Lear
134
Shakespeares Narrative and Dramatic Sources
141
The State
158
Copyright

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Common terms and phrases

A. C. Bradley Alack ALBANY Albany's attasked bastard Burgundy child Cordelia CORNWALL daughters dear death dost doth Duke duke of Albany Duke of Cornwall duty earl Earl of Gloucester EDGAR Edmund Enter Exeunt Exit eyes father fear flatter follow fool fortune France GENTLEMAN give GLOUCESTER Gloucester's gods Goneril Goneril and Regan Gorboduc grace hast hath hear heart heavens honor husband i'th John Keats KENT King Lear kingdom knave Lear's Leir letter live London look lord madam master means mind nature never night noble nuncle o'th OSWALD parents passion pity play play's poor pray prince Quarto Raphael Holinshed reason REGAN Robert Armin royal Samothes SCENE servants Shakespeare sister sonne speak speech sword thee There's thine things thou Tragedy unto villain William Hazlitt

References to this book

About the author (2005)

Claire McEachern is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her other editions of Shakespeare include the Arden 3 edition of Much Ado About Nothing (2006); 1&2 Henry IV, Henry V, King John and All's Well that Ends Well (Pelican, 2001). She is also the author or editor of the Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy (CUP, 2004); Religion and Culture in the English Renaissance (CUP, 1997), and The Poetics of English Nationhood, 1590-1612 (CUP, 2006).

Bibliographic information

TitleKing Lear
Longman cultural edition
AuthorWilliam Shakespeare
EditorClaire McEachern
Editionillustrated
PublisherPearson/Longman, 2005
Original fromthe University of Virginia
Digitized26 Aug 2008
ISBN0321107225, 9780321107220
Length264 pages
  
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