Shakespeare's King Lear : an edition with new insights / by S. Nagarajan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nagarajan, S. (Sankalapuram), 1929-2014, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Lear--Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William.

Physical Description:

viii, 412 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

Shakespeare's King Lear is often called his mightiest play. This comprehensive edition by S. Nagarajan (who edited the evergreen Signet edition of Measure for Measure) presents a lifetime of scholarship on Shakespeare and fifteen years of research specifically on Lear. Accessibly written, this edition serves the reader who has access to well-stocked libraries and lively theatres, as well as the student whose resources are more limited. The play-text is a conflation of the Quarto text and the First Folio text, and the notes provide a generous but discreet selection of alternative readings of lines and contexts. In ten erudite essays, Nagarajan provides a thoroughly researched picture of Shakespeare's sources for the play, his unique use of language, Elizabethan theatre, history and values of the play, analysis of enigmatic scenes, glimpses into its performance history and other subjects, with special attention to Indian dramatic art theory. This edition is the first to bring together both the best scholarship on Lear to date and perspectives from Indian poetics and philosophy. The result is a text that robustly includes, but goes beyond. Anglophone cultures and Euro-American experiences, making it truly representative of Lear's global stage. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

1 The Text and Dales of the Play 2

2 Sources, Influences and Values of the Play 5

3 Lear's Fool 48

The Play

Abbreviations 56

List of Characters 57

An Amalgamated Text of King Lear with Notes

Act I 59

Act II 145

Act III 199

Act IV 257

Act V 315

Language

4 Shakespeare's Words 352

5 Notes on Shakespeare's Versification 357

Some Problems of Interpretation

6 The First Two Scenes of the Play 362

7 Tragic Justice in King Lear 369

8 The Final Lines of King Lear: Are they spoken by Edgar or by Albany? 382

9 Cordelia's Return to England Reconsidered 387

Staging

10 Glimpses of Lear on the Indian Stage 398.

ISBN:

9781443899765

1443899763

OCLC:

959329818

Publisher Number:

99973528416