TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vickers,Brian
TI  - The One ‹i›King Lear‹/i›
SN  - 9780674970311
AV  - PR2819 .V53 2016
U1  - 822.3/3 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Transmission of texts
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; A Note on References --; Part 1. The Quarto, 1608 --; Chapter 1. King Lear at the Printer --; Chapter 2. Adjusting Text Space to Print Space in the Shakespeare Folio and Quartos --; Chapter 3. Nicholas Okes Compresses the Play --; Chapter 4. Nicholas Okes Abridges It --; Part 2. The Folio, 1623 --; Chapter 5. One Play, One Manuscript, Two Printed Books --; Chapter 6. The Folio Editors Regularize Shakespeare --; Chapter 7. The King’s Men Abridge a Tragedy --; Part 3. The One King Lear --; Chapter 8. The “Two Versions” Revisited --; Conclusion: Toward a New Consensus --; Appendix 1. Illustrations and Commentary --; Appendix 2. Space Saving in Q1 King Lear --; Notes --; Index; restricted access
N2  - In the 1980s influential scholars argued that Shakespeare revised King Lear in light of theatrical performance, resulting in two texts by the bard’s own hand. The two-text theory hardened into orthodoxy. Here Sir Brian Vickers makes the case that Shakespeare did not cut his original text. At stake is the way his greatest play is read and performed
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674970311
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674970311
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674970311/original
ER  -