King Lear (1917) Yale

by William Shakespeare

For other versions of this work, see King Lear (Shakespeare).

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The Yale Shakespeare

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THE CHRONICLE HISTORY OF
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF

KING LEAR

AND HIS THREE DAUGHTERS

 

EDITED BY
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

 

 

NEW HAVEN · YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON · HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS · MCMXVII

 

Copyright, 1917
By Yale University Press

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First published, October, 1917

 

 

Here Love the slain with Love the slayer lies;
⁠Deep drown'd are both in the same sunless pool.
Up from its depths that mirror thundering skies
⁠Bubbles the wan mirth of the mirthless Fool.

—William Watson

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS
	PAGE
The Text	1
⁠Act I	1
⁠Act II	36
⁠Act III	61
⁠Act IV	85
⁠Act V	113
Notes	131
Appendix A. Sources of the Play	138
Appendix B. History of the Play	143
Appendix C. Text of the Present Edition	146
Appendix D. Suggestions for Collateral Reading	147
Index of Words Glossed	148

 

The facsimile opposite represents the title-page of the Elizabethan Club copy of the spurious "1608" quarto. Though purporting to belong to that year, this edition is now known to be an interesting forgery, executed about 1619. A discussion of the relation between this and the genuine 1608 quarto, together with the imprint of the latter, will be found on p. 143. Of the spurious edition, some twenty-eight copies, are known to survive; of the genuine, ten.

 

THE YALE SHAKESPEARE

 

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Edited by

Wilbur L. Cross⁠Tucker Brooke

Willard Higley Durham

 

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Published under the Direction

of the

Department of English, Yale University,

on the Fund

Given to the Yale University Press in 1917

by the Members of the

Kingsley Trust Association

To Commemorate the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary

of the Founding of the Society