Binding: Paperback
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.
Title: The Tragedy Of King Lear
Author(s): Shakespeare William, Jay Halio
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Barcode: 9781316646977
Pages: 312 Pages, Worked Examples Or Exercises; 18 Halftones, Black And White; 1 Line Drawings, Black And W
Publication Date: 7/2/2020
Series: The New Cambridge Shakespeare
Category: Shakespeare Studies & Criticism