By William Shakespeare
ISBN-10: 1408204126
ISBN-13: 9781408204122
This reissued version of Longman Annotated Texts King Lear contains accomplished notes, annotations and an creation, all designed to be of use to undergraduates and readers.
King Lear is one in every of Shakespeare's most generally studied tragedies. in spite of the fact that, because the past due Nineteen Seventies textual students, critics and editors have argued that there's no unmarried 'King Lear' textual content. a person learning the play should be conscious of diverse texts, one in line with the 4to of 1608, The historical past of King Lear, and a revised model released within the first folio of 1623, The Tragedy of King Lear. This variation bargains an absolutely annotated, sleek spelling model of the texts set aspect via facet, deciding upon and elucidating the most important discrepancies among the 2. It offers a few attainable purposes for the variations among the 2 texts, which themselves make clear a couple of concerns on the subject of literary transmission within the Renaissance and provides an perception into the character of functionality and censorship.
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Sample text
Exclaimed Madame Ursula. " " But I'm not a chit—I'm heiress of Belmont—Lisetta told me so ; and she said I needn't learn my letters if I didn't like—-^and I don't like. Besides, I want to ride with cugino mio; and I won't say my letters till THE HEIRESS OF BELMONT. 39 you promise I shall have done in time to come back for my ride. Nasty letters ! " And the child uttered the last words with flashing eyes, and an insolent lip. Madame Ursula stalked back, and seized the little rebel whom her own injudicious unrelenting had created.
While the presence of Portia thus doubled and trebled all the previous delight that the two students had derived from these scenes, she herself tasted a pleasure she had never before known, and for the first time in her life, this hitherto solitary young creature might be said to learn the true happiness of existence. She had till lately lived in complete seclusion beneath her sole surviving parent's roof at Verona; and it was only since the recent period of their father's death, that Bellario had brought her to Padua to share his humble dwelling.
It seemed as if such an idea as the possibility of love growing out of friendship, had never suggested itself to his mind. He stood still, regarding them both, with an air of perplexity that might have amused Guido upon any other occasion. At present, however, he did not even see it; his whole soul was in his eyes, and they were riveted upon Portia only, who remained rooted to the spot, and covered with innocent blushes. " His sister said nothing; but after a moment's pause, she drew her hand softly from the brotherly arm to which she had hitherto clung, and creeping round to his other side, she again placed one arm within his, and held forth the other with a faltering motion, as if it sought to resume its former restingplace upon that of Guido.