"King Lear," by William Shakespeare, is part of the "Barnes &
Noble Shakespeare" series. This unique series features newly edited
texts prepared by leading scholars from America and Great Britain,
in collaboration with one of the world's foremost Shakespeare
authorities, David Scott Kastan of Columbia University. Together
they have produced texts as faithful as possible to those that
Shakespeare wrote. Each volume in the "Barnes & Noble
Shakespeare" includes:
- New Scholarship - Premiere scholars introduce each play with
contemporary scholarship. An essay on editing the text provides an
in-depth look at the quartos and folios used in the edition.
- Contextualizing Essays - Essays on Shakespeare's England,
language, and life, along with essays on performing Shakespeare and
significant performances frame the play in both historical and
theatrical context for readers. A look at the lasting influence of
the play on music, art, film, and dance creates an
interdisciplinary framework with which to approach the play.
- Better Notes - Through one-word margin definitions, facing-page
glosses, and longer end notes after the play, our innovative
approach to notes pulls readers away from the text fewer times
while providing them with more information and comprehensive
analysis.
- Further Reading - An annotated bibliography of titles,
hand-selected by the introduction author, takes readers beyond the
edition for further reading.One of Shakespeare's greatest
tragedies, "King Lear" portrays with frightening power the collapse
of royal and parental authority. The editor, Andrew Hadfield,
restores the play to its historical context, showing how the names
and places in the ancient Britain of the play connect to
Shakespeare's England.
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