The Complete King Lear, 1608-1623
Category: Books,Literature & Fiction,History & Criticism
The Complete King Lear, 1608-1623 Details
Review "The most exciting work in textual studies during the last few years has been devoted to showing that the two basic early texts of "King Lear, the Quarto of 1609 and the Folio of 1623, do not, as had been supposed, both derive from a single play, but that the Quarto gives the play in the form in which Shakespeare first conceived it, and the Folio represents his substantial revision. . . . "King Lear will never be the same again."--Stanley Wells, "The London Times Read more From the Inside Flap "The sample pages of Warren's proposed parallel text version of King Lear made my hair stand on end, and I think they will do so to an audience that includes undergraduates and educated general readers as well as graduate students and scholars one might have imagined as the audience for such a project. To see equally valid and sometimes radically different versions of familiar lines . . . is to make one realize both the difficulty and excitement of editing Shakespeare in general and this text in particular. . . . [This project] will probably revolutionize the criticism of King Lear."—Norman Rabkin, University of California, Berkeley Read more See all Editorial Reviews
Reviews