King LearSimon and Schuster, 23.08.2011 - 384 Seiten Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain that it represents. Its figures harden their hearts, engage in violence, or try to alleviate the suffering of others. Lear himself rages until his sanity cracks. What, then, keeps bringing us back to King Lear? For all the force of its language, King Lear is almost equally powerful when translated, suggesting that it is the story, in large part, that draws us to the play. The play tells us about families struggling between greed and cruelty, on the one hand, and support and consolation, on the other. Emotions are extreme, magnified to gigantic proportions. We also see old age portrayed in all its vulnerability, pride, and, perhaps, wisdom—one reason this most devastating of Shakespeare’s tragedies is also perhaps his most moving. The authoritative edition of King Lear from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes: -The exact text of the printed book for easy cross-reference -Hundreds of hypertext links for instant navigation -Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play -Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play -Scene-by-scene plot summaries -A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases -An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language -An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play -Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books -An annotated guide to further reading Essay by Susan Snyder The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare’s printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit Folger.edu. |
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... bear the best and most current thinking concerning both the texts and their interpretation. Here is an edition which makes the plays and poems fully understandable for modern readers using uncompromising scholarship. Professors Barbara ...
... bear the best and most current thinking concerning both the texts and their interpretation. Here is an edition which makes the plays and poems fully understandable for modern readers using uncompromising scholarship. Professors Barbara ...
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... bear, (1.1.192–96) Our potency made good, take thy reward. . . . Shakespeare's sentences are sometimes complicated not because of unusual structures or interruptions or delays but because of the omission of words and parts of words that ...
... bear, (1.1.192–96) Our potency made good, take thy reward. . . . Shakespeare's sentences are sometimes complicated not because of unusual structures or interruptions or delays but because of the omission of words and parts of words that ...
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... Shakespeare documented by surviving records— some people since the mid-nineteenth century have argued that William Shakespeare could not have written the Shakespeare's Theater xli plays that bear his name. These persons.
... Shakespeare documented by surviving records— some people since the mid-nineteenth century have argued that William Shakespeare could not have written the Shakespeare's Theater xli plays that bear his name. These persons.
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... bear his name. These persons have put forward some dozen names as more likely authors, among them Queen Elizabeth, Sir Francis Bacon, Edward de Vere (earl of Oxford), and Christopher Marlowe. Such attempts to find what for these ...
... bear his name. These persons have put forward some dozen names as more likely authors, among them Queen Elizabeth, Sir Francis Bacon, Edward de Vere (earl of Oxford), and Christopher Marlowe. Such attempts to find what for these ...
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... bear the name Shakespeare on its title page is Love's Labor's Lost of 1598. A few of these quartos were popular with the book-buying public of Shakespeare's lifetime; for example, quarto Richard II went through five editions between ...
... bear the name Shakespeare on its title page is Love's Labor's Lost of 1598. A few of these quartos were popular with the book-buying public of Shakespeare's lifetime; for example, quarto Richard II went through five editions between ...
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