Division of the Kingdom

Bys: Taylor, Gary and Warren, Michael

Book Overview

King Lear, widely regarded as Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, survives in two substantially different early texts, the Quarto of 1608 and the First Folio of 1623. Since the 18th century, however, editors have fused these two documents to produce a third, composite text that forms the basis of all modern productions and critical interpretations. Recently scholars have begun to challenge this editorial tradition, arguing that the Quarto and Folio texts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198129246
• ISBN13: 9780198129240
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 489 Pages
• Weight: 210.00 lbs.