King Lear

King Lear: a parallel text edition

by Shakespeare, William

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This reissed edition of Longman Annotated Texts King Lear includes comprehensive notes, annotations and an introduction, all designed to be of use to undergraduates and interested readers. King Lear is one of Shakespeare's most widely studied tragedies. However, since the late 1970s textual scholars, critics and editors have argued that there is no single 'King Lear' text. Anyone studying the play needs to be aware of two different texts, one based on the quarto of 1608, The History of King Lea…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :King Lear : a parallel text edition / edited by René Weis.

Summary

This reissed edition of Longman Annotated Texts King Lear includes comprehensive notes, annotations and an introduction, all designed to be of use to undergraduates and interested readers. King Lear is one of Shakespeare's most widely studied tragedies. However, since the late 1970s textual scholars, critics and editors have argued that there is no single 'King Lear' text. Anyone studying the play needs to be aware of two different texts, one based on the quarto of 1608, The History of King Lear, and a revised version published in the first folio of 1623, The Tragedy of King.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2010.
  • Edition:Second edition

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Longman/Pearson
  • Place of Publication:Harlow, England
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2010.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (x, 346 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781317863298, 1317863291, 1315833913, 9781315833910
  • oclc:ocn865578733
  • LC Classification:PR2819.A2
  • Dewey Decimal:822.3/3

Table of Contents

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of plates; Acknowledgements; Publisher's acknowledgements; Introduction; I; II; Albany and Edgar: the problem of the final speech-heading; Albany; Lear's death; The Fool; The Fool's monopoly: 1.4.130-45; The wild geese, Aesop's ant, and Merlin's prophecy: 2.4 and 3.2; The Fool, Edgar and Lear: from folly to madness; The mock-trial in 3.6; Edgar and the soliloquy at the end of 3.6; Censorship and the war; Kent's 'two' versions of the war in 3.1; Q's version of 3.1; The two-text 'Lear' and theatrical performance.

IIITextual hypotheses: the 'Lear' debate; The integral King Lear: its war and variants of convergence; (1) The War Revisited: Act 4 Scene 3 and Act 3 Scene 1; (2) Q/F Variants and Palaeographic Clues to an Integral Lear Text; Inclining towards Folio; Six Folio readings in search of the 1606 promptbook; Aesthetic judgements and editorial tools; Note on the text and annotations; The Texts; Quarto Dramatis Personae; Quarto Text; [Act 1 Scene 1]; [Act 1 Scene 2]; [Act 1 Scene 3]; [Act 1 Scene 4]; [Act 1 Scene 5]; [Act 2 Scene 1]; [Act 2 Scene 2]; [Act 2 Scene 3]; [Act 2 Scene 4]; [Act 3 Scene 1]…

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Subjects

Aging parents Aging parents -- Drama Britons Britons -- Drama Drama DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Fathers and daughters Fathers and daughters -- Drama Inheritance and succession Inheritance and succession -- Drama Kings and rulers Kings and rulers -- Drama Lear,, King of England (Legendary chara… Theatre

Writers

Shakespeare, William Weis, Rene

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