King Lear : TV Tie-in Edition

by Shakespeare, William; Harbage, Alfred

• ISBN13: 9780140071771
• ISBN10: 0140071776
• Format: Paperback
• Publisher: Penguin Books

Summary

Powerful tragedy of an aging king, betrayed by his daughters, robbed of his kingdom, descending into madness. Perhaps the bleakest of Shakespeare's tragic dramas, complete with explanatory footnotes.

Table of Contents

Shakespeare: An Overview	p. vii
Biographical Sketch	p. vii
A Note on the Anti-Stratfordians, Especially Baconians and Oxfordians	p. xi
The Shakespeare Canon	p. xv
Shakespeare's English	p. xviii
Shakespeare's Theater	p. xxvi
A Note on the Use of Boy Actors in Female Roles	p. xxxiii
Shakespeare's Dramatic Language: Costumes, Gestures and Silences; Prose and Poetry	p. xxxvi
The Play Text as a Collaboration	p. xliii
Editing Texts	p. xlix
Shakespeare on the Stage	p. liv
Introduction	p. lxiii
The Tragedy of King Lear	p. 1
Textual Note	p. 146
The Date and Sources of King Lear	p. 156
from The Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland	p. 159
from Arcadia	p. 162
from The True Chronicle History of King Leir	p. 170
Commentaries
from Preface to Shakespeare and "King Lear"	p. 178
from Shakespearean Tragedy	p. 190
from Prefaces to Shakespeare	p. 208
from King Lear in Out Time	p. 225
The Woman Reader in King Lear	p. 235
Staging Violence in King Lear	p. 245
King Lear on Stage and Screen	p. 249
Suggested References	p. 261
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