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King Lear, A Longman Cultural Edition

ISBN: 9780321107220 | 0321107225
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 8/3/2004

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
From Longman's new Cultural Editions series, King Lear , edited by Claire McEachern, includes the play and contextual materials from the era of Shakespeare. Handsomely produced and affordably priced, the Longman Cultural Editions series presents classic works in provocative and illuminating contexts cultural, critical, and literary. Each Cultural Edition consists of the complete text of an important literary work, reliably edited, headed by an inviting introduction, and supplemented by helpful annotations; a table of dates to track its composit... MORE
List of Illustrations
vii
About Longman Cultural Editionsix
About This Editionxi
Introductionxiv
... MORETable of Dates
xxii
King Lear
1(133)
The Texts of King Lear
134(5)
Contexts
139(120)
Shakespeare's Narrative and Dramatic Sources
141(17)
Raphael Holinshed, from ``The Second Booke of the Historie of England'' in The First and Second Volumes of Chronicles (1587)
144(3)
From The True Chronicle History of King Leir and his three daughters . . . As it hath beene divers and sundry times lately acted (1605)
147(7)
Sir Philip Sidney, from The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (1590)
154(4)
The State
158(18)
From An Exhortation Concerning Good Order and Obedience to Rulers and Magistrates (1570)
160(2)
Charles Merbury, from A Brief Discourse of Royal Monarchie, as of the Best Common Weale (1581)
162(1)
Sir Thomas Smith, from De Republica Anglorum (1583)
163(1)
James VI of Scotland, from The Trew Law of Free Monarchies (1599)
164(3)
James I of England, from A Speech [. . .] delivered in the Upper House of Parliament on Monday the 19 March 1604, being the first day of the first Parliament
167(2)
Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton, from Gorbuduc (1562)
169(4)
Samuel Harsnett, from A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures (1603)
173(3)
The Household
176(24)
Michel de Montaigne, from ``Of the Affection of Fathers for Their Children'' from The Essays (London, 1603)
179(5)
William Gouge, from Of Domesticall Duties (1622)
184(7)
Joseph Swetnam, from The Arraignment of Lewde, Idle, Forward, and Unconstant Women (1615)
191(2)
Jane Anger, from Her Protection for Women (1589)
193(1)
Fools and Folly
194(1)
Erasmus, from A Letter to Martin Dorp (1515)
195(1)
Robert Armin, from Foole upon Foole (1600)
196(4)
``Good'' and ``Evil''
200(20)
William Harrison, from ``Of the Ancient Religion Used in Albion'' (1587)
201(4)
Jean Calvin, from Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536)
205(4)
Richard Hooker, from Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (1593)
209(6)
Thomas Hobbes, from Leviathan (1651)
215(3)
St. Augustine, from The City of God, Book XIX (c.413--427)
218(2)
Early Readings and Rewritings
220(39)
Nahum Tate, from The History of King Lear (1681)
222(8)
Lewis Theobald, from The Censor (1715)
230(3)
Samuel Johnson, from ``Notes on King Lear'' in The Plays of William Shakespeare (London, 1765)
233(3)
George Colman, from the Preface to The History of King Lear (1768)
236(2)
Charles Lamb, from ``On the Tragedies of Shakespeare, considered with reference to their fitness for stage representation'' (1810)
238(3)
Charles Lamb, from ``King Lear'' in Tales from Shakespeare (1807)
241(6)
William Hazlitt, from The Characters of Shakespear's Plays (1818)
247(4)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from Lectures on Shakespeare (1818)
251(3)
John Keats, ``On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again'' (1818)
254(1)
A. C. Bradley, from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth (1904)
255(4)
Adaptations of King Lear
259(2)
Further Reading
261
 Claire McEachern is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.   Her other editions of Shakespeare include the Arden 3 edition of Much Ado About Nothing (2006); 1&2 Henry IV, Henry V, King John and All's Well that Ends Well (Pelican, 2001).  She is also the author or editor of the Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy (CUP, 2004); Religion and Culture in the English Renaissance (CUP, 1997), and The Poetics of English Nationhood, 1590-1612 (CUP, 2006).


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