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 xxviii
... Kent in the stocks in the course of Act Z, scene Z, and leave him there until scene 4 when Lear arrives in Gloucestershire to find him still enfettered; in the interim, scene 3, Kent has slumbered while Edgar comes onstage in a ...
... Kent in the stocks in the course of Act Z, scene Z, and leave him there until scene 4 when Lear arrives in Gloucestershire to find him still enfettered; in the interim, scene 3, Kent has slumbered while Edgar comes onstage in a ...
Page xxxii
... Kent (Tom Fleming) is unable to help. Elsewhere, cuts, rearrangements, and reassignment of speeches add to rather than relieve the horror. Lear and Gloucester, together on the beach of Dover in Act 4, scene 6, splendidly invoke a ...
... Kent (Tom Fleming) is unable to help. Elsewhere, cuts, rearrangements, and reassignment of speeches add to rather than relieve the horror. Lear and Gloucester, together on the beach of Dover in Act 4, scene 6, splendidly invoke a ...
Page xxxiii
... Kent (]ohn Shrapnel) as a thoroughly compassionate man, while the outwardly attractive Goneril (Gillian Barge) and Regan are vicious. Critics generally have found this a Workmanlike, satisfying performance, not shattering but sturdily ...
... Kent (]ohn Shrapnel) as a thoroughly compassionate man, while the outwardly attractive Goneril (Gillian Barge) and Regan are vicious. Critics generally have found this a Workmanlike, satisfying performance, not shattering but sturdily ...
Page xxxiv
... Kent, john Hurt as a Fool who can see only too clearly the approaching disaster that his master refuses to anticipate, Leo McKern as a fleshy and gullible but well-meaning Gloucester, David Threlfall as a thoughtful Edgar, and Robert ...
... Kent, john Hurt as a Fool who can see only too clearly the approaching disaster that his master refuses to anticipate, Leo McKern as a fleshy and gullible but well-meaning Gloucester, David Threlfall as a thoughtful Edgar, and Robert ...
Page xxxv
... Kent-like follower of Hidetora, is banished along with Saburo. The now-deposed warlord also has two daughters-inlaw: Sué (Yoshiko Miyazaki), the wife of Jiro, who is decent and generous despite the violent acts that Hidetora has ...
... Kent-like follower of Hidetora, is banished along with Saburo. The now-deposed warlord also has two daughters-inlaw: Sué (Yoshiko Miyazaki), the wife of Jiro, who is decent and generous despite the violent acts that Hidetora has ...
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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