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... the weight of Mrs W. West's Cordelia, and the production reverted to Tate's ending after only three performances. ... Bratton, p. 31; Charles Shattuck, Shakespeare on the American Stage: From the Hallams to Edwin Booth, 1976, p. 77.
For this second edition of King Lear, Jay L. Halio has added a new introductory section that focuses on recent developments in scholarly criticism as well as on contemporary productions of the play.
I'll speak a prophecy ere I go: When priests are more in word than matter; 76 When brewers mar their malt with water; When nobles are their tailors' tutors, No heretics burn'd, but wenches' suitors; When every case in law is right, ...
Hinman identified as an apprentice , ' set the rest of the play , or almost twice as much as B. That Compositor E's pages were more carefully proofread than B's is hardly surprising , since E was only an apprentice . Hinman has recorded ...
The whole idea of gaining through loss is a specifically Christian notion – that it's only by enduring the hideous ordeal of loss that any of these people gain . ” Mahon notes ( p . 122 ) some unusual — and to him ' crucial – cuts in ...
As the play unfolds each of the principal characters learns wisdom through suffering. This edition includes new critical essays by some of the leading lights in contemporary literary scholarship.
7 Lear's denunciation of Cordelia, as played at Munich's 'Elizabethan' theatre, c.1890, on a semipermanent set, with the 'early English' costumes typical of nineteenth-century productions THE ROLES 1900 Lear Audiences once expected ...
Criticism, notes, and a bibliography accompany the text of the tragedy
It’s a powerful story that still resonates centuries after its first performance in the 1600s. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Tragedy of King Lear is both modern and readable.
The Tragedy of King Lear
These updated editions of classic plays feature new cover art along with the complete text of each work, full explanatory notes, scene-by-scene plot summaries, a key to famous lines and phrases, and illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare ...
King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It tells the tale of a king who bequeaths his power and land to two of his three daughters, after they declare their love for him in a fawning and obsequious manner.
King Lear is a tragedy play by William Shakespeare.
Cover title: King Lear. Contains the text of the play, information about Shakespeare and his theater, bibliography, key to famous lines, and explanatory notes.
"The Tragedy of King Lear" by William Shakespeare is a profound exploration of family, power, and the human condition.