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Author : George Ian Duthie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Elizabethan Shorthand and the First Quarto of King Lear written by George Ian Duthie and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521587075
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (87 download)
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.
Author : Adele Davidson
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780874130478
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare in Shorthand written by Adele Davidson and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 2008 marks the four hundredth anniversary of the first publication of King Lear, and for four centuries the play has remained a consummate bibliographical mystery. Winner of the 2007 Jay L. Halio prize for best manuscript in Shakespeare studies, Shakespeare in Shorthand demonstrates that many textual anomalies derive from the play's transcription in Elizabethan shorthand. The shorthand system of John Willis, Stenographie (1602), shows a high correlation with the unusual textual features found in the first quarto of Lear (1608). The patterns of variants in the quarto conform to Willis' rules regarding the reduction of diphthongs and digraphs and the omission of aspirated, doubled, or unsounded letters. In the past two decades the textual interrelation of quarto and folio (1623) Lear has proven one of the most contested issues in Shakespearean studies, and an examination of Stenographie reveals that some of these textual differences result not from authorial revision, but from transmission in abbreviated writing. Bibliographical evidence also indicates that some textual omissions from the folio version are neither authorial nor theatrical, but derive from the printing house.
Author : Kevin J. Donovan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350128422
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book King Lear written by Kevin J. Donovan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-26 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume documents the reception and interpretation of Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear by critics, editors and general readers from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries. Following an introduction which provides an historical account of the play's critical reception from the earliest times to the present day, the volume presents a selection of original documents, together with contextual head notes and biographical sketches of the authors and a rationale for their selection, as well as a list of suggested further reading. The chronological arrangement of the text-excerpts engages the readers in a direct and unbiased dialogue, whereas the introduction offers a critical evaluation from a current stance, including modern theories and methods. Thus the volume makes a major contribution to our understanding of the play and of the traditions of Shakespearean criticism surrounding it as they have developed from century to century.
Author : Sir Brian Vickers
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674970330
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book The One King Lear written by Sir Brian Vickers and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1980s influential scholars argued that Shakespeare revised King Lear in light of theatrical performance, resulting in two texts by the bard’s own hand. The two-text theory hardened into orthodoxy. Here Sir Brian Vickers makes the case that Shakespeare did not cut his original text. At stake is the way his greatest play is read and performed.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140707243
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (72 download)
Download or read book King Lear written by William Shakespeare and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powerful tragedy of an aging king, betrayed by his daughters, robbed of his kingdom, descending into madness. Perhaps the bleakest of Shakespeare's tragic dramas, complete with explanatory footnotes.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107195861
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Tragedy of King Lear written by William Shakespeare and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a completely new introduction, with a particular emphasis on the play's afterlife in global performance and adaptation.
Author : Steven Urkowitz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400857279
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare's Revision of KING LEAR written by Steven Urkowitz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the three texts of King Lear--the Quarto version printed in 1608, the Folio edition of 1623, and the modern composite of these two early texts--it has been assumed that both the Quarto and Folio versions arc distortions of an unblemished original" now lost and that only the modern text accurately approaches Shakespeare's lost original manuscript. Steven Urkowitz argues to the contrary that the Quarto and Folio are simply different stages of Shakespear's writing--an early draft and a final revision--and that they reveal much about his process of composition. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Lukas Erne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521822558
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (225 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist written by Lukas Erne and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-13 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
Author : Andrew R. Murphy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444332058
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text written by Andrew R. Murphy and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text introduces the early editions, editing practices, and publishing history of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, and examines their influence on bibliographic studies as a whole. The first single-volume book to provide an accessible and authoritative introduction to Shakespearean bibliographic studies Includes a helpful introduction, notes on Shakespeare’s texts, and a useful bibliography Contributors represent both leading and emerging scholars in the field Represents an unparalleled resource for both students and faculty
Author : Jeffrey Kahan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135973644
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
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 454 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
Author : Graham Holderness
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
ISBN 13 : 9781902806211
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Textual Shakespeare written by Graham Holderness and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Textual Shakespeare' reassesses the Bard as a writer in the light of the late-20th century revolution in bibliography and textual studies. Reviewing debates in textual theory and practice, Holderness concludes that 'Shakespeare' is not a writer but a collection of documents.
Author : Stanley Wells
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191090115
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare on Page and Stage written by Stanley Wells and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a winning selection of the very best essays from the long and distinguished career of Stanley Wells, one of the most well-known and respected Shakespeare scholars in the world. Wells's accomplishments include editing the entire canon of Shakespeare plays for the ground-breaking Oxford Shakespeare, and over his lifetime he has made significant contributions to debates over literary criticism of the works, genre study, textual theory, Shakespeare's afterlife in the theatre, and contemporary performance. The volume is introduced by Peter Holland, and its thirty chapters are divided into themed sections: 'Shakespearian Influences', 'Essays on Particular Works', 'Shakespeare in the Theatre', and 'Shakespeare's Text'. An afterword by Margreta de Grazia concludes the volume.
Author : Alice Walker
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
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:
Author : Robert E. Burkhart
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110878569
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare's Bad Quartos written by Robert E. Burkhart and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Shakespeare's Bad Quartos".
Author : Kenneth Muir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521246040
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Aspects of King Lear written by Kenneth Muir and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982-10-28 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together nine essays on King Lear by distinguished scholars, all of which were first published in Shakespeare Survey, the leading journal devoted to Shakespeare studies. A retrospective survey of criticism from 1934 to the present is followed by studies of the play's style and discussion of its background, meaning and theatrical presentation. The volume is illustrated with photographs of post-war productions.
Author : Lynne Bradley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317185439
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Adapting King Lear for the Stage written by Lynne Bradley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questioning whether the impulse to adapt Shakespeare has changed over time, Lynne Bradley argues for restoring a sense of historicity to the study of adaptation. Bradley compares Nahum Tate's History of King Lear (1681), adaptations by David Garrick in the mid-eighteenth century, and nineteenth-century Shakespeare burlesques to twentieth-century theatrical rewritings of King Lear, and suggests latter-day adaptations should be viewed as a unique genre that allows playwrights to express modern subject positions with regard to their literary heritage while also participating in broader debates about art and society. In identifying and relocating different adaptive gestures within this historical framework, Bradley explores the link between the critical and the creative in the history of Shakespearean adaptation. Focusing on works such as Gordon Bottomley's King Lear's Wife (1913), Edward Bond's Lear (1971), Howard Barker's Seven Lears (1989), and the Women's Theatre Group's Lear's Daughters (1987), Bradley theorizes that modern rewritings of Shakespeare constitute a new type of textual interaction based on a simultaneous double-gesture of collaboration and rejection. She suggests that this new interaction provides constituent groups, such as the feminist collective who wrote Lear's Daughters, a strategy to acknowledge their debt to Shakespeare while writing against the traditional and negative representations of femininity they see reflected in his plays.
