The Oxford Shakespeare: The History of King LearThe Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers - a new, modern-spelling text, based on the Quarto text of 1608 - on-page commentary and notes explain meaning, staging, allusions and much else - detailed introduction considers composition, sources, performances and changing critical attitudes to the play - illustrated with production photographs and related art - includes 'The Ballad of King Lear' and related offshoots - full index to introduction and commentary - durable sewn binding for lasting use 'not simply a better text but a new conception of Shakespeare. This is a major achievement of twentieth-century scholarship.' Times Literary Supplement ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. |
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William Shakespeare Stanley Wells. INTRODUCTION ONCE upon a time , probably in 1605 , a man called William Shake- speare , using a quill pen , wrote a play about the legendary British King Lear and his three daughters . How often he ...
William Shakespeare Stanley Wells. INTRODUCTION ONCE upon a time , probably in 1605 , a man called William Shake- speare , using a quill pen , wrote a play about the legendary British King Lear and his three daughters . How often he ...
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William Shakespeare Stanley Wells. conducted not discursively but in a text that requires actors to rep- resent men and women in action that is often violent , in extremes of suffering , and in repose . In imaginative scope and in its ...
William Shakespeare Stanley Wells. conducted not discursively but in a text that requires actors to rep- resent men and women in action that is often violent , in extremes of suffering , and in repose . In imaginative scope and in its ...
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William Shakespeare Stanley Wells. texts of the past rather than adapting them to suit itself , complaints that the ... Shakespeare originally wrote it in order to explain how this edition differs from others . ( A more technical ...
William Shakespeare Stanley Wells. texts of the past rather than adapting them to suit itself , complaints that the ... Shakespeare originally wrote it in order to explain how this edition differs from others . ( A more technical ...
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... Shakespeare himself had a hand . Throughout the seventeenth century , Shakespeare's play of King Lear continued to be represented in print by two separate ver- sions deriving from the texts of 1608 and 1623. The former was reprinted ...
... Shakespeare himself had a hand . Throughout the seventeenth century , Shakespeare's play of King Lear continued to be represented in print by two separate ver- sions deriving from the texts of 1608 and 1623. The former was reprinted ...
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William Shakespeare Stanley Wells. Shakespearian versions , the earlier printed from his original manu- script before the play had been put into rehearsal , and the other from a text incorporating changes made for performance . In 1986 ...
William Shakespeare Stanley Wells. Shakespearian versions , the earlier printed from his original manu- script before the play had been put into rehearsal , and the other from a text incorporating changes made for performance . In 1986 ...
Contents
Textual Introduction and Editorial Procedures | 81 |
The Ballad of King Lear | 277 |
Alterations to Lineation | 293 |
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