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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      August 2019
      May 1994
      ISBN:
      9781316563892
      9780521587075
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316563892
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      Weight & Pages:
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.238kg, 156 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Literary Texts
      Series:
      The New Cambridge Shakespeare: The Early Quartos
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Literary Texts
    Series:
    The New Cambridge Shakespeare: The Early Quartos
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    This edition of King Lear is based on the first (1608) quarto and represents a significantly different version from that published in the Folio of 1623, which forms the basis of the standard New Cambridge Shakespeare edition. Most scholars now believe that the quarto derives from what was probably Shakespeare's own autograph draft of the play, whereas the Folio derives from a late, revised copy used as the prompt-book. Each has numerous unique passages and hundreds of variant readings, creating differences which affect the structure, characterisation and overall impact of the play. This volume contains a substantial introduction, the text of the first quarto and a collation of variant readings from the second quarto and the First Folio. Passages unique to the Folio are printed separately in an appendix.

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    "...it provides editorial assistance of every imaginable kind, textual variants, glossing of unfamiliar language." Studies in English Literature

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