King LearRandom House Publishing Group, 2009 M08 4 - 272 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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... lines that are not in the Quarto ; there are more than eight hundred verbal variants in the parts of the play that ... line just about right but the actual words . nearly all wrong is typical of texts based on memory , but not typical of ...
... lines that are not in the Quarto ; there are more than eight hundred verbal variants in the parts of the play that ... line just about right but the actual words . nearly all wrong is typical of texts based on memory , but not typical of ...
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... lines 30-42 in conflated texts are Quarto only , 22-29 are Folio only : in the RSC text , compare and contrast 3.1.13-23 and Quarto Passages , 46-59 ) . The alteration seems to be part of a wider process of diminishing the French ...
... lines 30-42 in conflated texts are Quarto only , 22-29 are Folio only : in the RSC text , compare and contrast 3.1.13-23 and Quarto Passages , 46-59 ) . The alteration seems to be part of a wider process of diminishing the French ...
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... lines in the opening scene , giving a stronger polit- ical justification for the division of the kingdom : We have this hour a constant will to publish Our daughters ' several dowers , that future strife May be prevented now . ... ( 1.1 ...
... lines in the opening scene , giving a stronger polit- ical justification for the division of the kingdom : We have this hour a constant will to publish Our daughters ' several dowers , that future strife May be prevented now . ... ( 1.1 ...
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... lines that do not run to the right margin and by capitalization of each line . The Folio printers sometimes set verse as prose , and vice versa ( either out of misunderstanding or for reasons of space ) . We have silently corrected in ...
... lines that do not run to the right margin and by capitalization of each line . The Folio printers sometimes set verse as prose , and vice versa ( either out of misunderstanding or for reasons of space ) . We have silently corrected in ...
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... line may be equally effective as an aside or a direct address - it is for each produc- tion or reading to make its own decision ) or a may exit or a piece of business placed between arrows to indicate that it may occur at var- ious ...
... line may be equally effective as an aside or a direct address - it is for each produc- tion or reading to make its own decision ) or a may exit or a piece of business placed between arrows to indicate that it may occur at var- ious ...
Contents
Textual Notes | 122 |
ScenebyScene Analysis | 142 |
The RSC and Beyond | 156 |
Shakespeares Career in the Theater | 203 |
A Chronology | 218 |
References | 226 |
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Act 4 Scene actor Adrian Noble Alack Albany Albany's Antony Antony Sher audience bastard beggar blind Brian Cox Burgundy Cordelia Corin Redgrave CORNWALL daughters death disguised dost Dover Duke Duke of Cornwall Edgar editors Edmund Enter Lear Exeunt Exit eyes father feel Following fortune France GENTLEMAN give gods Goneril Goneril and Regan grace hath heart human Ian McKellen Jonathan Bate KENT KENT LEAR King Lear kingdom knave LEAR FOOL LEAR KENT Lear's letter Lines look lord madam messenger Michael Gambon nature night nuncle performance Peter Brook pity played Lear poor Pray production Q corrected Q uncorrected Quarto text Regan role Royal Shakespeare Company running scene sense servant Shake Shakespeare sister speak speech stage storm tell theater thee there's thine things Tragedy traitor Trevor Nunn trumpet villain