The Tragedy of King Lear - Brossura

Shakespeare, William

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ISBN 10: 0521337291 ISBN 13: 9780521337298

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1992

Riassunto

This is the first fully annotated, critical edition of King Lear to appear for forty years. It includes a comprehensive account of Shakespeare's sources and the literary, political, and folkloric influences at work in the play, a detailed reading of the action, and a substantial stage history of major productions. Jay Halio is concerned to clarify, for those approaching the play for the first time, the vexed question of its textual history. Unlike previous editions, his does not present a conflation of the Quarto and the Folio. 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, Professor Halio 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.

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Descrizione del libro

The is the first fully annotated critical edition of King Lear to appear for forty years. Unlike previous editions, this one does not present a conflation of the Quarto and the Folio, but offers the latter as the authoritative text.

Contenuti

List of illustrations; Preface; Abbreviations and conventions; Introduction; 1. Date and sources of Shakespeare's King Lear; 2. The play; 3. King Lear on stage and screen; 4. Textual analysis, part I: 5. Quarto and Folio compared: some parallel passages; 6. Note on the text; 7. List of characters; 8. The Play; 9. Textual analysis, part II. Appendix: passages unique to the first quarto; Reading list.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0521337291
• ISBN 13: 9780521337298
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 335
• Redattore: Halio Jay L.