Shakespeare's Revision of KING LEAR / / Steven Urkowitz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Urkowitz, Steven,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1980
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Essays in Literature ; 634
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (182 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; CHAPTER I Current Opinions on the Texts of King Lear --; CHAPTER II Textual Variants in Dramatic Contexts --; CHAPTER III Textual Variants and Players' Entrances and Exits --; CHAPTER IV Interrupted Exits and the Textual Variants in Act Three, Scene One --; CHAPTER V The Role of Albany in the Quarto and Folio --; CHAPTER VI Contemporary Bibliographical Theories and Editorial Practices and the Case for Authorial Revision --; ABBREVIATIONS OF FREQUENTLY CITED WORKS --; NOTES --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400857272; 9783110413441; 9783110413533; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400857272?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Steven Urkowitz.

Of the three texts of King Lear--the Quarto version printed in 1608, the Folio edition of 1623, and the modern composite of these two early texts--it has been assumed that both the Quarto and Folio versions arc distortions of an unblemished original" now lost and that only the modern text accurately approaches Shakespeare's lost original manuscript. Steven Urkowitz argues to the contrary that the Quarto and Folio are simply different stages of Shakespear's writing--an early draft and a final revision--and that they reveal much about his process of composition.Originally published in 1980.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.