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Book SynopsisOf the three texts of King Lear--the Quarto version printed in 1608, the Folio edition of 1623, and the modern composite of these two early texts--it has been assumed that both the Quarto and Folio versions arc distortions of an unblemished original" now lost and that only the modern text accurately approaches Shakespeare's lost original manuscript
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. ix*CHAPTER I Current Opinions on the Texts of King Lear, pg. 3*CHAPTER II Textual Variants in Dramatic Contexts, pg. 16*CHAPTER III Textual Variants and Players' Entrances and Exits, pg. 35*CHAPTER IV Interrupted Exits and the Textual Variants in Act Three, Scene One, pg. 56*CHAPTER V The Role of Albany in the Quarto and Folio, pg. 80*CHAPTER VI Contemporary Bibliographical Theories and Editorial Practices and the Case for Authorial Revision, pg. 129*ABBREVIATIONS OF FREQUENTLY CITED WORKS, pg. 151*NOTES, pg. 153*INDEX, pg. 167
