King Lear: The 1608 Quarto and 1623 Folio TextsPenguin, 1 de febr. 2000 - 320 pàgines The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series design Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books | 50 Covers competition Gold Medal Winner of the 3x3 Illustration Annual No. 14 This edition of King Lear presents a conflated text, combining the 1608 Quarto and 1623 Folio Texts, edited with an introduction by series editor Stephen Orgel and was recently repackaged with cover art by Manuja Waldia. Waldia received a Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators for the Pelican Shakespeare series. The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare’s time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by general editors Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, these easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage, appeared between 1956 and 1967. With stunning new covers, definitive texts, and illuminating essays, the Pelican Shakespeare will remain a valued resource for students, teachers, and theater professionals for many years to come. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
Des de l'interior del llibre
Resultats 1 - 5 de 41.
Pàgina
... comes from Shakespeare's enemies and theatrical competitors as well as from his coworkers and from the Elizabethan equivalent of literary journalists, it seems unlikely that, if any of these sources had known he was a fraud, they would ...
... comes from Shakespeare's enemies and theatrical competitors as well as from his coworkers and from the Elizabethan equivalent of literary journalists, it seems unlikely that, if any of these sources had known he was a fraud, they would ...
Pàgina
... comes from the chronicles of ancient Britain, the action belongs more to the world of legend than history. Lear's court initially seems like a fairy-tale world, where momentous decisions are determined by trifles. The opening moments of ...
... comes from the chronicles of ancient Britain, the action belongs more to the world of legend than history. Lear's court initially seems like a fairy-tale world, where momentous decisions are determined by trifles. The opening moments of ...
Pàgina
... comes as a profound surprise to everyone present. In insisting on her right to silence, she is not only refusing to play, but is changing the rules. How are we to take this scene? We could say that it is a debate between style and ...
... comes as a profound surprise to everyone present. In insisting on her right to silence, she is not only refusing to play, but is changing the rules. How are we to take this scene? We could say that it is a debate between style and ...
Pàgina
... comes almost as an afterthought, the tying up of a loose end. Gloucester is effectively abandoned by the play. His tragedy is framed, moreover, with a simplistic moral. Edgar, confronting Edmund at the end, says, The gods are just, and ...
... comes almost as an afterthought, the tying up of a loose end. Gloucester is effectively abandoned by the play. His tragedy is framed, moreover, with a simplistic moral. Edgar, confronting Edmund at the end, says, The gods are just, and ...
Pàgina
... comes, like the catastrophe of the old 110 112 113 117 118 120 121 122 123 127 comedy; mine is villainous melancholy, with a sigh like them of Bedlam. O these eclipses do portend these divisions – 128 129 130 EDGAR How now, brother ...
... comes, like the catastrophe of the old 110 112 113 117 118 120 121 122 123 127 comedy; mine is villainous melancholy, with a sigh like them of Bedlam. O these eclipses do portend these divisions – 128 129 130 EDGAR How now, brother ...
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Frases i termes més freqüents
ALBANY answer appear Bastard bear bring brother Burgundy comes Cordelia CORNWALL course daughter dear death disguised dost draw duke EDGAR EDMUND Enter Exeunt Exit eyes father fear fire folio follow FOOL fortune France GENTLEMAN give GLOUCESTER Gloucester’s gods gone GONERIL grace hand hast hath head hear heart heavens hold honor horse I’ll keep KENT kind king knave lady late LEAR less letter live look lord madam master means nature never night noble nuncle OSWALD performances plain play poor pray quarto reason REGAN seek Servants Shakespeare sister sound speak speech stage stand stocks sword tell texts theater thee There’s thine thing thou thou art thought traitor true turn villain wind wits