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The one King Lear / Sir Brian Vickers

Material Type	Books
Publisher	Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Year	2016
Language	English
Size	xxi, 387 p. : facsims. ; 25 cm

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Location	Volume	Call No.	Barcode No.	Status	Comments	ISBN	Printed	Restriction	Req Memo	Reserve
2F reading room		932.5/V	111601315			9780674504844			Req Memo		Req Memo

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Notes	Summary: "For over two hundred years editors were united in their decision to bring together the King Lear texts of the Quarto (1608) and the First Folio (1623) to produce a single text that was the basis for all modern productions and interpretations. In the 1980s a group of influential scholars argued that the two texts represent distinct stages in the life of King Lear, as Shakespeare revised his play in the light of theatrical performance. In The One King Lear, Sir Brian Vickers challenges this widely accepted theory, arguing that the cuts in the Quarto text, which are too insignificant to have been made to shorten the play, were in fact carried out by the printer because he had underestimated the amount of paper he would need. As for the Folio, the cuts removed passages of a reflective or descriptive nature and were probably made by the theatre company to speed up the action. At stake in this textual argument is the way Shakespeare's play is read and performed"--Publisher's information Includes bibliographical references and index
Authors	*Vickers, Brian, 1937-
Subjects	LCSH:Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Lear -- Criticism, Textual All Subject Search LCSH:Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Lear LCSH:Transmission of texts -- England -- History -- 17th century All Subject Search LCSH:Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Bibliography -- Folios. 1623 All Subject Search LCSH:Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Bibliography -- Quartos All Subject Search LCSH:Okes, Nicholas
Classification	LCC:PR2819 DC23:822.3/3
ID	1000010921
ISBN	9780674504844
NCID	BB21219211