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This edition of Shakespeare's King Lear is based on the first (1608) quarto and represents a significantly different version from that published in the Folio of 1623. Each has numerous unique passages and hundreds of variant readings, creating differences which affect the structure, characterisation and overall impact of the play.

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"...it provides editorial assistance of every imaginable kind, textual variants, glossing of unfamiliar language." Studies in English Literature

Table of Contents
Preface; Abbreviations and conventions; Introduction; Note on the text; List of characters; The Play; Textual notes; Appendix: Passages unique to the Folio.

The First Quarto of King Lear

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    A Paperback by William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio

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      Publisher Cambridge University Press
      Published 12 December 1996
      ISBN-13 9780521587075
      978-0521587075
      ISBN-10 0521587077
      Also in:
      Poetry Books by William Shakespeare

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This edition of Shakespeare's King Lear is based on the first (1608) quarto and represents a significantly different version from that published in the Folio of 1623. Each has numerous unique passages and hundreds of variant readings, creating differences which affect the structure, characterisation and overall impact of the play.

      Trade Review
      "...it provides editorial assistance of every imaginable kind, textual variants, glossing of unfamiliar language." Studies in English Literature

      Table of Contents
      Preface; Abbreviations and conventions; Introduction; Note on the text; List of characters; The Play; Textual notes; Appendix: Passages unique to the Folio.

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