Download or read book The Variants in the First Quarto of King Lear written by Walter Wilson Greg and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1940 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Variants in the First Quarto of King Lear written by Walter Wilson Greg and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1940 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Variants in the First Quarto of King Lear written by Walter Wilson Greg and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1940 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Variants in the First Quarto of King Lear written by Walter Wilson Greg and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book King Lear written by Jeffrey Kahan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-04-18 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is King Lear an autonomous text, or a rewrite of the earlier and anonymous play King Leir? Should we refer to Shakespeare’s original quarto when discussing the play, the revised folio text, or the popular composite version, stitched together by Alexander Pope in 1725? What of its stage variations? When turning from page to stage, the critical view on King Lear is skewed by the fact that for almost half of the four hundred years the play has been performed, audiences preferred Naham Tate's optimistic adaptation, in which Lear and Cordelia live happily ever after. When discussing King Lear, the question of what comprises ‘the play’ is both complex and fragmentary. These issues of identity and authenticity across time and across mediums are outlined, debated, and considered critically by the contributors to this volume. Using a variety of approaches, from postcolonialism and New Historicism to psychoanalysis and gender studies, the leading international contributors to King Lear: New Critical Essays offer major new interpretations on the conception and writing, editing, and cultural productions of King Lear. This book is an up-to-date and comprehensive anthology of textual scholarship, performance research, and critical writing on one of Shakespeare's most important and perplexing tragedies. Contributors Include: R.A. Foakes, Richard Knowles, Tom Clayton, Cynthia Clegg, Edward L. Rocklin, Christy Desmet, Paul Cantor, Robert V. Young, Stanley Stewart and Jean R. Brink
Download or read book The Variants in the First Quarto of King Lear written by Walter Wilson Greg and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The First Quarto of King Lear written by William Shakespeare and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of Shakespeare's King Lear is based on the first (1608) quarto and represents a significantly different version from that published in the folio of 1623, which forms the basis of the standard New Cambridge Shakespeare edition. Each has numerous unique passages and hundreds of variant readings, creating differences that affect the structure, characterization and overall impact of the play. This volume contains a substantial introduction, the text of the first quarto, a collation of variant readings and an appendix of passages unique to the Folio.
Download or read book The One King Lear written by Brian Vickers and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Lear exists in two different texts: the Quarto (1608) and the Folio (1623). Because each supplies passages missing in the other, for over 200 years editors combined the two to form a single text, the basis for all modern productions. Then in the 1980s a group of influential scholars argued that the two texts represent different versions of King Lear, that Shakespeare revised his play in light of theatrical performance. The two-text theory has since hardened into orthodoxy. Now for the first time in a book-length argument, one of the world’s most eminent Shakespeare scholars challenges the two-text theory. At stake is the way Shakespeare’s greatest play is read and performed. Sir Brian Vickers demonstrates that the cuts in the Quarto were in fact carried out by the printer because he had underestimated the amount of paper he would need. Paper was an expensive commodity in the early modern period, and printers counted the number of lines or words in a manuscript before ordering their supply. As for the Folio, whereas the revisionists claim that Shakespeare cut the text in order to alter the balance between characters, Vickers sees no evidence of his agency. These cuts were likely made by the theater company to speed up the action. Vickers includes responses to the revisionist theory made by leading literary scholars, who show that the Folio cuts damage the play’s moral and emotional structure and are impracticable on the stage.
Download or read book The Variats in The First Quarto of King Lear written by Walter Greg and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1969-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bibliographical study of the first edition of Shakespeare's play by the master bibliographer & leading Shakespearean scholar. Supersedes all previous studies.
Download or read book Sonnets and Poems written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The First Quarto of King Richard III written by William Shakespeare and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-09-12 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this quarto edition the text is accompanied by a collation of variant readings and substantial textual notes.
Download or read book The Tragedy of King Lear written by William Shakespeare and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition features a section on recent stage, film & critical interpretations of the play. Jay Halio takes the Folio as opposed to the Quarto text for this edition. He explains the differences between the editions as well as describing the literary, political & folkloric influences at work within the play.
Download or read book Textual Problems of the First Folio written by Alice Walker and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1953 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Berryman s Shakespeare written by John Berryman and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2000-12-30 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by John Haffenden With a Preface by Robert Giroux John Berryman, one of America's most talented modern poets, was winner of the Pulitzer Prize for 77 Dream Songs and the National Book Award for His Toy, His Dream, His Rest. He gained a reputation as an innovator whose bold literary adventures were tempered by exacting discipline. Berryman was also an active, prolific, and perceptive critic whose own experience as a major poet served to his advantage. Berryman was a protégé of Mark Van Doren, the great Shakespearean scholar, and the Bard's work remained one of his most abiding passions--he would devote a lifetime to writing about it. His voluminous writings on the subject have now been collected and edited by John Haffenden.
Download or read book Four Tragedies written by William Shakespeare and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1994 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth.
Download or read book The First Quarto of Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-15 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full edition of the first quarto of Romeo and Juliet (1597), with helpful commentary.
Download or read book King Lear written by Kenneth Muir and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1984. With selections organised chronologically, this collection presents the best writing on one of Shakespeare’s most studied plays. The structure displays the changing responses to the play and includes a wide range of criticism from the likes of Coleridge, Hazlitt, Moulton, Granville-Barker, Orwell, Levin, Stampfer, Gardner and Speaight interspersed with short entries from Keats, Raleigh, Freud and others. The final chapter by the editor elucidates his own thoughts on Lear, building on his commentary in the Introduction which puts the collection in context.
