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King Lear Paperback – 23 April 2009

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JONATHAN BATE is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, University of Warwick, UK, and the editor of The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works. He has held visiting posts at Harvard, Yale and UCLA and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the British Academy, an Honorary Fellow of St Catherine's College, Cambridge, and a Governor and Board member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. A prominent critic, award-winning biographer and broadcaster, he is the author of several books on Shakespeare, including The Genius of Shakespeare (Picador), which was praised by Sir Peter Hall, founder of the RSC, as 'the best modern book on Shakespeare'. In June 2006 he was awarded a CBE by HM The Queen 'for services to Higher Education'.

ERIC RASMUSSEN is Professor of English at the University of Nevada, USA, and the Textual Editor of The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works. He is co-editor of the Norton Anthology of English Renaissance Drama and has edited volumes in both the Arden Shakespeare and Oxford World's Classics series. He is the General Textual Editor of the Internet Shakespeare Editions project - one of the most visited Shakespeare websites in the world. For over nine years he has written the annual review of editions and textual studies for the Shakespeare Survey.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Red Globe Press; 1st edition (23 April 2009)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 1 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0230576141
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0230576148
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.49 x 1.37 x 23.5 cm
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    William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

    Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire and was baptised on 26 April 1564. Thought to have been educated at the local grammar school, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he went on to have three children, at the age of eighteen, before moving to London to work in the theatre. Two erotic poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece were published in 1593 and 1594 and records of his plays begin to appear in 1594 for Richard III and the three parts of Henry VI. Shakespeare's tragic period lasted from around 1600 to 1608, during which period he wrote plays including Hamlet and Othello. The first editions of the sonnets were published in 1609 but evidence suggests that Shakespeare had been writing them for years for a private readership.

    Shakespeare spent the last five years of his life in Stratford, by now a wealthy man. He died on 23 April 1616 and was buried in Holy Trinity Church in Stratford. The first collected edition of his works was published in 1623.

    (The portrait details: The Chandos portrait, artist and authenticity unconfirmed. NPG1, © National Portrait Gallery, London)

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Sheila Marian Burney
5.0 out of 5 stars King Lear
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 September 2014
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Very good condition book, thank you so much, very fast delivery, no problems whatsoever
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William Zunder
3.0 out of 5 stars User-friendly but Narrowly Conceived
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 June 2009
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An excellent reading copy: beautifully produced, with well-judged notes and a user-friendly manner. Its weakness is that, instead of seeing King Lear as a major cultural document written in the dominant literary form of its time - the commercial play - it sees it as primarily a text for performance. It reproduces the text included in the Complete Works published in 2007 under the auspices of the Royal Shakespeare Company. The RSC Shakespeare was a major event in English studies. It returned the plays to their condition in 1623, when the first collected edition was published under the aegis of the King's Men, the acting company Shakespeare had belonged to. Half the plays, however, had already been published individually, most of them in versions as authentic as those of the collected edition. King Lear was one of them, published in 1608, a couple of years after its first performance. The collected edition prints a shortened version of this play; it tidies it up, but also impoverishes it by omitting important moments in the play's meaning and emotion. The obvious remedy for this is to restore the omissions, which has been the common editorial practice since the eighteenth century. The RSC editors, though, committed to a view of the later text as a final acting version, are reluctant to do this, and print the omitted passages in a lengthy appendix. This is a shame; and it's a bit of an irony that the edition of Lear previously preferred by the RSC, the New Penguin Shakespeare, which restores the omissions, actually presents a version of the play that is richer and more nuanced, and one closer to Shakespeare's original and fullest conception.
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Lesley Christine Nicholson
4.0 out of 5 stars certain textual points to be discussed can be more easily found when looking for line numbers
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 October 2014
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I bought the RSC 'King Lear' because most of the people in my Shakespeare Group,follow it; including the tutor. In a group, certain textual points to be discussed can be more easily found when looking for line numbers.
Not sure whether it is the best version though as some members of the group follow other versions which seem to have more points for discussion.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Ebook format not as sold.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 August 2017
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Layout is comply different from the look inside view. There are no line numbers format is comfusing, with new paragraphs halfway through utterances. Useless for literature study.
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Anne Williams
1.0 out of 5 stars Posted as new but was in rubbish condition
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 April 2014
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They posted the product as beingnew, but the cover was bent, there was sticky stuff from where the sticker had been. Did not live up to expectations!
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