The One ‹i›King Lear‹/i› /

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 st...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vickers, Brian (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]
Temas:
Transmission of texts > England > History > 17th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • A Note on References
  • Part 1. The Quarto, 1608
  • Chapter 1. King Lear at the Printer
  • Chapter 2. Adjusting Text Space to Print Space in the Shakespeare Folio and Quartos
  • Chapter 3. Nicholas Okes Compresses the Play
  • Chapter 4. Nicholas Okes Abridges It
  • Part 2. The Folio, 1623
  • Chapter 5. One Play, One Manuscript, Two Printed Books
  • Chapter 6. The Folio Editors Regularize Shakespeare
  • Chapter 7. The King's Men Abridge a Tragedy
  • Part 3. The One King Lear
  • Chapter 8. The "Two Versions" Revisited
  • Conclusion: Toward a New Consensus
  • Appendix 1. Illustrations and Commentary
  • Appendix 2. Space Saving in Q1 King Lear
  • Notes
  • Index

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