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King Lear de William Shakespeare

King Lear

Autor William Shakespeare
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 dec 2024 – vârsta de la 14 ani

Penned by Shakespeare from 1604, King Lear or the Tragedy of King Lear, is a five-act drama set in the court of an aging British monarch, whose plan to step down from his throne and divide his kingdom among his daughters ends tragically.

Widowed King Lear beckons his nobles together to announce his plans to pass on the kingdom to his three daughters. Goneril, his oldest, is married to the Duke of Albany, his middle daughter, Regan, is married to the Duke of Cornwall. The youngest daughter, Cordelia has caught the eye of both the Duke of Burgundy and the King of France. It is a tragic tale of flawed leadership, betrayal, and believing flattery over genuine love.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781914602603
ISBN-10: 1914602609
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 122 x 181 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: chiltern publishing

Notă biografică

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 - 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon." His early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best works produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until 1608, among them Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, all considered to be among the finest works in the English language.

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Chiltern Publishing creates the most beautiful editions of the World's finest literature. Your favourite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile embossed layers, fine details and beautiful colours of these remarkable covers make these titles feel extra special and will look striking on any shelf.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

The general editors of the new series of forty-two volumes -- renowned Shakespeareans Stephen Orgel of Stanford University and A. R. Braunmuller of UCLA -- have assembled a team of six eminent scholars who have, along with the general editors themselves, prepared new introductions and notes to all of Shakespeare's plays and poems. Redesigned in an easy-to-read format that preserves the favorite features of the original -- and including an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare, an introduction to the individual play, and a note on the text used -- the new Pelican Shakespeare will be an excellent resource for students, teachers, and theater professionals well into the twenty-first century.

Cuprins

Introduction

  • William Shakespeare 1564–1616
    King Lear
King Lear
In Context
  • The Shakespearean Theater
    • The Swan Theatre
      Titus Andronicus in Performance
      The Plot of an Elizabethan Play
  • Early Editions of King Lear
    Source Material
    • from Geoffrey of Monmouth, The History of the Kings of Britain (12th century)
      Cap o’ Rushes
      from Anonymous, The True Chronicle History of King Leir and his Three Daughters (1605)
      from Raphael Holinshed, The Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1577, 1587)
      from Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1590)
      The Annesley Case
      from Samuel Harsnett, A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures (1603)
  • King Lear on Stage in the Seventeenth Century
    • from Richard Johnson, “The Ballad of King Lear and his Three Daughters” (1620)
      from Nahum Tate, The History of King Lear (1681)

Recenzii

The text of the play included here, prepared by Craig Walker for The Broadview Anthology of British Literature, has been acclaimed for its outstanding introductory material and annotations, and for its inclusion of parellel text versions of key scenes for which the texts of the Quarto and the Folio versions of the play are substantially different.
Also included in this edition are excerpts from a variety of literary source materials (including Geoffrey on Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae, the anonymous True Chronicle Historie of King Leir, and Samuel Harsnett’s A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures); material on the historical Annesley case that raised many of the same issues as does Shakespeare’s play; and the happy ending from Nahum Tate’s version of the play, which held the stage for 150 years after its first performance in 1681.

“The Broadview chooses the Folio as the basic text, but, significantly, adds notes throughout that point out the differences appearing in the Quarto version. In addition, in the case of the three scenes in which differences are most pronounced, the anthology prints both Folio and Quarto versions side by side. This method opens up illuminating and exciting possibilities in the classroom.... I regard the unhesitating confrontation with the difficulties of King Lear that is shown by the Broadview editors as a microcosmic illustration of the toughness, determination, and conscientiousness of the editors throughout this entire British literature anthology.” — Robert H. Ray, Baylor University (author of Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare’s King Lear)
“... an exciting achievement ... It sets a new standard by which all other anthologies of British Literature will now have to be measured.” — Graham Hammill, SUNY—Buffalo
“The Broadview Anthology of British Literature is no mere pretender to the throne long held by Norton; it is the new standard.” — Richard Nordquist, Armstrong Atlantic State University