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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... performance . Among other scholars who have been generous in sharing their expertise I should mention Jeremy Barlow, J. M. Binns, Anthony Burton, Paul Edmondson, Melvin Earles, Richard Knowles, Joan Lane, the late Peggy Munoz Simons ...
... performance . Among other scholars who have been generous in sharing their expertise I should mention Jeremy Barlow, J. M. Binns, Anthony Burton, Paul Edmondson, Melvin Earles, Richard Knowles, Joan Lane, the late Peggy Munoz Simons ...
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... Performance 56 'King Lear 'as a Text for Readers 5 7 Performance Texts of 'King Lear ' 60 Nahum Tate 's Adaptation 62 Return to Shakespeare 69 Interpretation in Performance 75 Textual Introduction and Editorial Procedures 8 1 ...
... Performance 56 'King Lear 'as a Text for Readers 5 7 Performance Texts of 'King Lear ' 60 Nahum Tate 's Adaptation 62 Return to Shakespeare 69 Interpretation in Performance 75 Textual Introduction and Editorial Procedures 8 1 ...
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... performances, many of them in languages that he cannot have known and in countries of which he can have had no inkling. It has enhanced — and occasionally diminished — the reputations of innumerable actors . It has stimulated other ...
... performances, many of them in languages that he cannot have known and in countries of which he can have had no inkling. It has enhanced — and occasionally diminished — the reputations of innumerable actors . It has stimulated other ...
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... performance. Performance has also humanized it, so that it seems equally great but less formidable than some earlier accounts might suggest, a colossus of a play still, but one that is shot through with irony and tenderness, a play that ...
... performance. Performance has also humanized it, so that it seems equally great but less formidable than some earlier accounts might suggest, a colossus of a play still, but one that is shot through with irony and tenderness, a play that ...
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... performance.1 They are likely to have done so first at their regular theatre, the Globe. No doubt they used stage business and sound effects, including music, beyond those indicated in the original manuscript, and they may well have ...
... performance.1 They are likely to have done so first at their regular theatre, the Globe. No doubt they used stage business and sound effects, including music, beyond those indicated in the original manuscript, and they may well have ...
Contents
Textual Introduction and Editorial Procedures | 81 |
The Ballad of King Lear | 277 |
Offshoots of King Lear | 286 |
Alterations to Lineation | 293 |
Index | 303 |
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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...
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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!