The Oxford Shakespeare: The History of King LearOUP Oxford, 2001 M01 4 - 336 pages The 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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Page 257 - I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness. So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news ; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses, and who wins ; who's in, who's out ; And take...
Page 121 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit of our own behaviour — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars : as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on...
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Page 230 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Page 105 - Why have my sisters husbands, if they say They love you all? Haply, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry Half my love with him, half my care and duty. Sure I shall never marry like my sisters, To love my father all.
Page 176 - Stain my man's cheeks! — No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall — I will do such things, — What they are, yet I know not ; but they shall be The terrors of the earth. You think, I'll weep; No, I'll not weep: — I have full cause of weeping ; but this heart Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws, Or ere I'll weep: — O, fool, I shall go mad!
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Page 139 - Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase ; And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her ! If she must teem, Create her child of spleen ; that it may live And be a thwart disnatured torment to her...
Page 123 - A credulous father, and a brother noble, Whose nature is so far from doing harms, That he suspects none ; on whose foolish honesty My practices ride easy!