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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... century English translation of Sir Thomas Chaloner ) . This " error of the mind " is a special gift of the goddess Folly . Thus Lear is happy when his mind is free , when he is running around in his madness like a child on a country ...
... century English translation of Sir Thomas Chaloner ) . This " error of the mind " is a special gift of the goddess Folly . Thus Lear is happy when his mind is free , when he is running around in his madness like a child on a country ...
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... centuries on , we keep going back to Shakespeare and his dazzling mirror world in which everyone is a player . Looked at in one way , the world of King Lear , with its images of doom , its mad king , scheming ugly sisters , its fool and ...
... centuries on , we keep going back to Shakespeare and his dazzling mirror world in which everyone is a player . Looked at in one way , the world of King Lear , with its images of doom , its mad king , scheming ugly sisters , its fool and ...
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... centuries there has been a major new edi- tion of his complete works . One aspect of editing is the process of keeping the texts up to date - modernizing the spelling , punctuation , and typography ( though not , of course , the actual ...
... centuries there has been a major new edi- tion of his complete works . One aspect of editing is the process of keeping the texts up to date - modernizing the spelling , punctuation , and typography ( though not , of course , the actual ...
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... century , the new answer is something like this . Ah : that's a question over which Shakespeare himself seems to have had some uncertainty . In his original version of the play Albany speaks the final speech and thus rules the realm ...
... century , the new answer is something like this . Ah : that's a question over which Shakespeare himself seems to have had some uncertainty . In his original version of the play Albany speaks the final speech and thus rules the realm ...
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... century until the 1980s , editions attempted to recover an ideal unitary text , to get as close as they could to " what Shakespeare wrote . " There was a curious resistance to the idea that Shakespeare wrote one thing , tested it in the ...
... century until the 1980s , editions attempted to recover an ideal unitary text , to get as close as they could to " what Shakespeare wrote . " There was a curious resistance to the idea that Shakespeare wrote one thing , tested it in the ...
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