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by: William Shakespeare
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780192839923
ISBN: 0192839926
Label: Oxford University Press, USA
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: April 12, 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Sales Rank: 775220
Studio: Oxford University Press, USA
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King Lear, widely considered Shakespeare's most deeply moving, passionately expressed, and intellectually ambitious play, has almost always been edited from the revised version printed in the First Folio of 1623, with additions from the quarto of 1608. Now for the first time, this new volume presents the full, scholarly edition to be based firmly on the quarto, now recognized as the base text from which all others derive. A thorough, attractively written introduction suggests how the work grew slowly in Shakespeare's imagination, fed by years of reading, thinking, and experience as a practical dramatist.
This editition consists of a new, modern-spelling text; a full index to the introduction and commentary; production photographs and related art. The on-page commentary and detailed notes to this edition offer critical help in understanding the language and dramaturgy in relation to the theaters in which King Lear was first performed. Additional sections reprint the early ballad, which was among the play's earliest sources, and provide additional guides to understanding and appreciating one of the greatest masterworks of Western civilization.
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Rating:  - AFTER ARDEN THE BEST YOU CAN GET
The traditional King Lear (Arden Shakespeare) adequately presents the scholarship, in three different editions stretching back a century. I admit I have not seen the latest third edition, but find the second very helpful.
As mentioned briefly in the other review here, Oxford provides a welcome supplement to the Arden. For one thing the typescript may be found to be more clear. The Arden in the second edition may be found rather busy upon the page, with under a half page of play, a busy ... Read More
Rating:  - Informative
The OXFORD is a great source. What the ARDEN'S may not touch on, these do, and thus, shed more light on the subject at hand.
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