King Lear (1917) Yale
The Yale Shakespeare
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
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.
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
Edited by
Wilbur L. CrossTucker Brooke
Willard Higley Durham
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
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