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The tragedy of King Lear / by William Shakespeare.
LIBRA - Rare PR2819.A2 W7 1957 Potok copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Series:
- Folger Library general reader's Shakespeare
- The Folger Library general reader's Shakespeare
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lear, King of England (Legendary character)--Drama.
- Lear.
- Lear, King of England (Legendary character).
- Inheritance and succession--Drama.
- Inheritance and succession.
- Fathers and daughters--Drama.
- Fathers and daughters.
- Kings and rulers--Drama.
- Kings and rulers.
- Aging parents--Drama.
- Aging parents.
- Britons--Drama.
- Britons.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xliii pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 125 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimiles ; 17 cm.
- Other Title:
- King Lear
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Washington Square Press published by Pocket Books, [1957]
- Contents:
- In Production: King Lear through the Years / Douglas A. Brooks Brooks, Douglas A.
- As Performed
- King Lear and Pop Culture / Douglas Lanier Lanier, Douglas
- King Lear / William Shakespeare Shakespeare, William
- The Cast Speaks - the 2006 production at the Goodman Theater in Chicago, IL / Marie Macaisa Macaisa, Marie
- A Voice Coach's Perspective on Speaking Shakespeare: Keeping Shakespeare Practical / Andrew Wade Wade, Andrew
- In the Age of Shakespeare / Thomas Garvey Garvey, Thomas.
- Notes:
- "A Washington Square Press Publication of Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. ..."
- "First Pocket Books pirnting February, 1957."
- "To provide the reader with necessary notes in the most accessible format, we have placed them on the pages facing the text that they explain. We have tried to make these notes as brief and simple as possible."
- "The editors of the present edition of 'King Lear' have taken the version in the First Folio as the basis of the text, but as editors have generally done, they have collated it with the First Quarto and have adopted the readings of the Quarto text in passages where they seemed better."--The Text.
- Series general editor: Louis B. Wright Director, Folger Shakespeare Library, 1948-1968; assistant editor Virginia A. LaMar Executive Secretary, Folger Shakespeare Library, 1946-1968.
- Includes "References for further reading" : (pages xli-xliii).
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok
- Potok Collection copy has numerous underlines, marginal marks and ms. annotations.
- ISBN:
- 0671468464
- OCLC:
- 671645318
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