King LearRandom House Publishing Group, 2013 M06 12 - 352 pages A king foolishly divides his kingdom between his scheming two oldest daughters and estranges himself from the daughter who loves him. So begins this profoundly moving and disturbing tragedy that, perhaps more than any other work in literature, challenges the notion of a coherent and just universe. The king and others pay dearly for their shortcomings–as madness, murder, and the anguish of insight and forgiveness that arrive too late combine to make this an all-embracing tragedy of evil and suffering. Each Edition Includes: • Comprehensive explanatory notes • Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship • Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English • Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories • An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography |
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Page xvii
... Goneril, Regan, Cornwall, and Oswald do lead to their violent deaths. Edmund's belated attempt to save the life of Cordelia, though unsuccessful, suggests that this intelligent villain has at last begim to understand the great flaw in ...
... Goneril, Regan, Cornwall, and Oswald do lead to their violent deaths. Edmund's belated attempt to save the life of Cordelia, though unsuccessful, suggests that this intelligent villain has at last begim to understand the great flaw in ...
Page xviii
... Goneril, and Regan. Gverwhelmed as we are by the testimonial before us of humankind's vicious capacity for self-destruction, we are stirred nonetheless by the ability of some men and women to confront their fearful destiny with probity ...
... Goneril, and Regan. Gverwhelmed as we are by the testimonial before us of humankind's vicious capacity for self-destruction, we are stirred nonetheless by the ability of some men and women to confront their fearful destiny with probity ...
Page xxiv
... Goneril's hall in Scotland, are rowdy enough to give plausibility to Goneril's impatience with her father. Cuts and rearrangement of some speeches are calculated to add to rather than relieve the horror. Lear and Gloucester, together on ...
... Goneril's hall in Scotland, are rowdy enough to give plausibility to Goneril's impatience with her father. Cuts and rearrangement of some speeches are calculated to add to rather than relieve the horror. Lear and Gloucester, together on ...
Page xxxi
... Goneril (Irene \X/orth) are shown in bed together as a way of making explicit their adultery. Edmund's last-minute reformation and attempt to save the life of Cordelia (Anne-Lise Gabold) are excised. Instead we glimpse the snapping of ...
... Goneril (Irene \X/orth) are shown in bed together as a way of making explicit their adultery. Edmund's last-minute reformation and attempt to save the life of Cordelia (Anne-Lise Gabold) are excised. Instead we glimpse the snapping of ...
Page xxxiii
... Goneril and Regan (Elza Radzina and Galina Volchek) are repellent and coarse. The Fool (Oleg Dal), absent from the latter half of the play and from Brook's film, survives to the end in the Russian version as a plaintive, shavenheaded ...
... Goneril and Regan (Elza Radzina and Galina Volchek) are repellent and coarse. The Fool (Oleg Dal), absent from the latter half of the play and from Brook's film, survives to the end in the Russian version as a plaintive, shavenheaded ...
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Alack ALBANY bastard blind brother Burgundy Charles Dickens Child Rowland Cordelia CORNWALL D. H. Lawrence daughters dear death disguised doth Dover Duke Duke of Cornwall Edith Wharton Edmund Enter Edgar Enter Lear Exeunt Exit eyes father fear film flatter folio follow FOOL fortune France Fyodor Dostoevsky GENTLEMAN give Gloucester's gods GONERIL Goneril and Regan grace hast hath hear heart heavens honor horse i'th Jane Austen justice KENT King Lear kingdom knave Lear's Leir Leonatus letter lord madam master means MESSENGER nature never night noble nuncle Perillus pity play play's Plexirtus poor pray princes quarto RAGAN REGAN royal scene servants Shakespeare sister Skalliger speak stage stand storm Stratford-upon-Avon suffering sword Telenor tell theater thee There's thine thou art traitor trumpet unto villain wicked sisters William Shakespeare wretched