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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... editions by three good friends , the late Kenneth Muir , Jay Halio , and R. A. Foakes . I have done what I can to make my edition complement rather than rival theirs . My text is heavily indebted to that prepared , with my collaboration ...
... editions by three good friends , the late Kenneth Muir , Jay Halio , and R. A. Foakes . I have done what I can to make my edition complement rather than rival theirs . My text is heavily indebted to that prepared , with my collaboration ...
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... editions of Shakespeare's plays printed in his lifetime , it is not divided into acts and scenes . This edition , like that printed in the Oxford Complete Works , numbers the scenes into which it falls naturally , but does not impose ...
... editions of Shakespeare's plays printed in his lifetime , it is not divided into acts and scenes . This edition , like that printed in the Oxford Complete Works , numbers the scenes into which it falls naturally , but does not impose ...
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... edition known as the First Folio , seven years after Shakespeare died , and it is un- likely that anyone would have made these changes - apparently transcribed on to a copy of the second edition , published in 1619 , of the text first ...
... edition known as the First Folio , seven years after Shakespeare died , and it is un- likely that anyone would have made these changes - apparently transcribed on to a copy of the second edition , published in 1619 , of the text first ...
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... edition of the Complete Works ( based largely on Rowe's revised edition of 1714 ) in which he added to the text of King Lear derived from the Folio cer- tain passages unique to the Quarto , and omitted a few lines found only in the ...
... edition of the Complete Works ( based largely on Rowe's revised edition of 1714 ) in which he added to the text of King Lear derived from the Folio cer- tain passages unique to the Quarto , and omitted a few lines found only in the ...
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... edition on the text that lies closest to performance . So , for example , G. R. Hibbard's Oxford Shakespeare edition ( 1987 ) of Hamlet , unlike most editions of the play , offers a text firmly based on the Folio , to the extent of ...
... edition on the text that lies closest to performance . So , for example , G. R. Hibbard's Oxford Shakespeare edition ( 1987 ) of Hamlet , unlike most editions of the play , offers a text firmly based on the Folio , to the extent of ...
Contents
Textual Introduction and Editorial Procedures | 81 |
The Ballad of King Lear | 277 |
Alterations to Lineation | 293 |
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