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. |
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... across (and sometimes lining) the building's longer axis. These spaces staged plays less frequently than the public theaters (perhaps only once a week) and held far fewer spectators than the amphitheaters: about 200 to 600, as opposed.
... across (and sometimes lining) the building's longer axis. These spaces staged plays less frequently than the public theaters (perhaps only once a week) and held far fewer spectators than the amphitheaters: about 200 to 600, as opposed.
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... less cheerfully accept the situation; some even make a theoretical virtue of it by claiming that such data are irrelevant to understanding and interpreting the plays and poems. So, what do we know about William Shakespeare, the man ...
... less cheerfully accept the situation; some even make a theoretical virtue of it by claiming that such data are irrelevant to understanding and interpreting the plays and poems. So, what do we know about William Shakespeare, the man ...
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... Less popular candidates – Queen Elizabeth and Christopher Marlowe among them – have had adherents, but the movement seems to have divided into two main contending factions, Baconian and Oxfordian. (For further details on all the ...
... Less popular candidates – Queen Elizabeth and Christopher Marlowe among them – have had adherents, but the movement seems to have divided into two main contending factions, Baconian and Oxfordian. (For further details on all the ...
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... less practical and more metaphysical ways, as the power of his senses – Hence, and avoid my sight! (I.1.122)* – and even more significantly, as the power of his language. Kent, urging Lear to rescind his decree, has sought “To come ...
... less practical and more metaphysical ways, as the power of his senses – Hence, and avoid my sight! (I.1.122)* – and even more significantly, as the power of his language. Kent, urging Lear to rescind his decree, has sought “To come ...
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... obviously, were not mutually exclusive. Certainly the quarto's history of Lear is no less tragic than the folio's tragedy of Lear, and the folio makes as much of Gloucester's and Edgar's story as the Note on the Texts.
... obviously, were not mutually exclusive. Certainly the quarto's history of Lear is no less tragic than the folio's tragedy of Lear, and the folio makes as much of Gloucester's and Edgar's story as the Note on the Texts.
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