The Tragedy of King Lear

Name: The Tragedy of King Lear
Brand: William Shakespeare
SKU: 9781316646977
Price: 12.38 GBP
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by William Shakespeare

Title:

Author:

William Shakespeare

Series (if any):

The New Cambridge Shakespeare

Format:

Paperback

Number of pages:

312 pages, Worked examples or Exercises; 18 Halftones, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and w

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press

ISBN-13:

9781316646977

EAN:

9781316646977

Classifications:

Plays, playscripts

Weight (g):

574

Dimensions (mm):

152 x 227 x 17

Publication Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Condition:

New

Price:£12.38

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Description

For this updated critical edition of King Lear, Lois Potter has written a completely new introduction, taking account of recent productions and reinterpretations of the play, with particular emphasis on its afterlife in global performance and adaptation. The edition retains the Textual Analysis of the previous editor, Jay L. Halio, shortened and with a new preface by Brian Gibbons. Professor Halio, accepting that we have two versions of equal authority, the one derived from Shakespeare's rough drafts, the other from a manuscript used in the playhouses during the seventeenth century, chooses the Folio as the text for this edition. He explains the differences between the two versions and alerts the reader to the rival claims of the quarto by means of a sampling of parallel passages in the Introduction and by an appendix which contains annotated passages unique to the quarto.