The One ‹i›King Lear‹/i› / / Brian Vickers.
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 i...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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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