Shakespeare's Revision of KING LEAR

ISBN: 9780691609768 出版年：2014 页码：181 Urkowitz, Steven Princeton University Press

Of the three texts of king lear--the quarto version printed in 1608, the folio edition of 1623, and the modern composite of these two early texts--it has been assumed that both the quarto and folio versions arc distortions of an unblemished original" now lost and that only the modern text accurately approaches shakespeare's lost original manuscript. Steven urkowitz argues to the contrary that the quarto and folio are simply different stages of shakespear's writing--an early draft and a final revision--and that they reveal much about his process of composition. Originally published in 1980. The princeton legacy library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of princeton university press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions.