Shakespeare Quarto Facsimiles King Lear 1 Quarto

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333745127
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (451 download)

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Download or read book M. William Shak-Speare's King Lear written by William Shakespeare and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from M. William Shak-Speare's King Lear: The First Quarto, 1608; A Facsimile (From the British Museum Copy, C. 34; K. 18;) Mr. W. G. Clark and Mr. W. Aldis Wright changed all that. Their complete collation of the old copies definitely settled that there were but two quarto editions of 1608 that the first of these is the Q0 commencing with Signature B and bearing on its title a reference to the place of sale, the Pide Bull in Pauls Church yard; the second, the Q commencing with Signature A, and having no reference to the place of sale on its title. In this order as Q1 and Q2 I shall hereafter refer to them but it must be borne in mind that in the Cambridge edition itself this nota tion is reversed accepting the decision of some preceding com mentators as to the order of precedence of the two quartos, the Editors noted throughout the second quarto as Qt and the first as Q2. It was not until their work was completed that they became aware of the true order of these quartos. In their Preface they pointed this out, and Mr. Aldis abt has smce in his Clarendon Press edition of the Play (1875) assigned them1v. Speculations AS TO printers OF the Q05. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."