The One ‹i›King Lear‹/i› / / Brian Vickers.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Vickers, Brian,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.) :; 7 halftones, 1 line illustration, 2 tables

In the 1980s influential scholars argued that Shakespeare revised King Lear in light of theatrical performance, resulting in two texts by the bard’s own hand. The two-text theory hardened into orthodoxy. Here Sir Brian Vickers makes the case that Shakespeare did not cut his original text. At stake is the way his greatest play is read and performed.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- A Note on References -- Part 1. The Quarto, 1608 -- Chapter 1. King Lear at the Printer -- Chapter 2. Adjusting Text Space to Print Space in the Shakespeare Folio and Quartos -- Chapter 3. Nicholas Okes Compresses the Play -- Chapter 4. Nicholas Okes Abridges It -- Part 2. The Folio, 1623 -- Chapter 5. One Play, One Manuscript, Two Printed Books -- Chapter 6. The Folio Editors Regularize Shakespeare -- Chapter 7. The King’s Men Abridge a Tragedy -- Part 3. The One King Lear -- Chapter 8. The “Two Versions” Revisited -- Conclusion: Toward a New Consensus -- Appendix 1. Illustrations and Commentary -- Appendix 2. Space Saving in Q1 King Lear -- Notes -- Index