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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, which forms the basis of the standard New Cambridge Shakespeare edition. Each has numerous unique passages and hundreds of variant readings, creating differences that affect the structure, characterization and overall impact of the play. This volume contains a substantial introduction, the text of the first quarto, a collation of variant readings and an appendix of passages unique to the Folio.
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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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This edition of King Lear is based on the first (1608) quarto. It differs substantially from the version in the Folio of 1623. An introduction explains the relation of Q to the second edition and to F; the collation records all substantive variants; passages unique to the Folio are printed in an appendix.
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- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0521418119
- ISBN 13 9780521418119
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages155
- EditorHalio Jay L.
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