King LearRandom House Publishing Group, 04.08.2009 - 272 Seiten 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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... suggest that the lesson has been learned that Stoic comfort will not do , that it is better to speak what we feel than what we ought to say . The Folio's ascription of this speech to Edgar makes more dramatic sense than the Quarto's to ...
... suggest that the lesson has been learned that Stoic comfort will not do , that it is better to speak what we feel than what we ought to say . The Folio's ascription of this speech to Edgar makes more dramatic sense than the Quarto's to ...
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... suggesting that Kent and Edgar should share power between them . Kent , wise as ever , sees the foolishness of this and gracefully withdraws , presumably to commit suicide or will on the heart attack that he is already sensing . By ...
... suggesting that Kent and Edgar should share power between them . Kent , wise as ever , sees the foolishness of this and gracefully withdraws , presumably to commit suicide or will on the heart attack that he is already sensing . By ...
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... suggests that Quarto was his first ver- sion of the play , Folio his second . The textual variants give us a unique opportunity to see the plays as working scripts . In the received editorial tradition , there is a very puzzling moment ...
... suggests that Quarto was his first ver- sion of the play , Folio his second . The textual variants give us a unique opportunity to see the plays as working scripts . In the received editorial tradition , there is a very puzzling moment ...
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... suggesting the pace of the plays .. Speakers ' Names are often inconsistent in Folio . We have regular- ized speech headings , but retained an element of deliberate inconsis- tency in entry directions , in order to give the flavor of ...
... suggesting the pace of the plays .. Speakers ' Names are often inconsistent in Folio . We have regular- ized speech headings , but retained an element of deliberate inconsis- tency in entry directions , in order to give the flavor of ...
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... suggests the briefest of pauses for breath , the colon a middling one , and a full stop or period a longer pause . Semi- colons , by contrast , belong to an era of punctuation that was only just coming in during Shakespeare's time and ...
... suggests the briefest of pauses for breath , the colon a middling one , and a full stop or period a longer pause . Semi- colons , by contrast , belong to an era of punctuation that was only just coming in during Shakespeare's time and ...
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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