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The one King Lear /

"For over two hundred years editors were united in their decision to bring together the King Lear texts of the Quarto (1608) and the First Folio (1623) to produce a single text that was the basis for all modern productions and interpretations. In the 1980s a group of influential scholars argued...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Vickers, Brian (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • King Lear at the printer's
  • Adjusting text space to print space in the Shakespeare folio and quartos
  • Nicholas Okes compresses the play
  • Nicholas Okes shortens it
  • One play, one manuscript, two printed books
  • The Folio editors regularize Shakespeare
  • The King's Men abridge a tragedy
  • The "two versions" revisited
  • Conclusion : towards a new consensus.