the tragedy of king lear the new cambridge shakespeare

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1、EditedbyJayL.HalioAninternationalteamofscholarsoffers:.modernized,easilyaccessibletexts•amplecommentaryandintroductions.attentiontothetheatricalqualitiesofeachplayanditsstagehistory•informativeillustrationsTheTragedyofKingLearForthisupdatedcriticaleditionofKingLear,ProfessorHaliohasadd

2、edanewintroductorysectiononrecentstage,filmandcriticalinterpretationsoftheplay.HegivesacomprehensiveaccountofShakespeare'ssourcesandtheliterary,politicalandfolkloricinfluencesatworkintheplay;adetailedreadingoftheaction;andasubstantialstagehistoryofmajorproductions.ProfessorHaliochooses

3、theFolioasthetextforthisedition.HeCoverdesignbyPaulOldman,basedexplainsthedifferencesbetweentheonadrawingbyDavidHockney,QuartoandFolioversionsandalertsthereproducedbypermissionofthereadertotherivalclaimsoftheQuartobymeansofasamplingofparallelpassagesintheIntroductionandbyanappendixwhic

4、hcontainsannotatedpassagesuniquetotheQuarto.Anupdatedreadinglistcompletestheedition.CAMBRIDGEUNIVERSITYPRESSwww.cambridge.orgTHENEWCAMBRIDGESHAKESPEAREGENERALEDITORBrianGibbonsASSOCIATEGENERALEDITORA.R.BraunmullerFromthepublicationofthefirstvolumesin1984theGeneralEditoroftheNewCambridg

5、eShakespearewasPhilipBrockbankandtheAssociateGeneralEditorswereBrianGibbonsandRobinHood.From1990to1994theGeneralEditorwasBrianGibbonsandtheAssociateGeneralEditorswereA.R.BraunmullerandRobinHood.THETRAGEDYOFKINGLEARForthisupdatedcriticaleditionofKingLear,ProfessorHaliohasaddedanewintrod

6、uctorysectiononrecentstage,film,andcriticalinterpretationsoftheplay.HegivesacomprehensiveaccountofShakespeare'ssourcesandtheliterary,political,andfolkloricinfluencesatworkintheplay;adetailedreadingoftheaction;andasubstantialstagehistoryofmajorproductions.JayHalioisconcernedtoclarify,fo

7、rthoseapproachingtheplayforthefirsttime,thevexedquestionofitstextualhistory.Unlikepreviouseditions,hisdoesnotpresentaconflationofthequartoandtheFolio.Acceptingthatwehavetwoversionsofequalauthority,theonederivedfromShakespeare'sroughdrafts,theotherfromamanuscriptusedintheplayhousesdur