The One King Lear

by Brian Vickers

King Lear exists in two different texts: the Quarto (1608) and the Folio (1623). Because each supplies passages missing in the other, for over 200 years editors combined the two to form a single text, the basis for all modern productions. Then in the 1980s a group of influential scholars argued that the two texts represent different versions of King Lear, that Shakespeare revised his play in light of theatrical performance. The two-text...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674504844
• ISBN13: 9780674504844
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.4"