The new Globe Theater (opened 1997)

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The new Globe Theater (opened 1997)
http//www.shakespearesglobe.com/about-us/virtual-
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• How were Shakespeares plays published?
• During (and after) his lifetime, in quarto
  editions
• Sometimes multiple quartos of plays (e.g., Lear,
  Romeo Juliet, Hamlet)
• Sometimes authorized, sometimes not
• Sometimes good (e.g., Lear Q1), sometimes bad
  (e.g., Hamlet Q1)
• In 1623 the First Folio
• Published by two colleagues, John Heminges and
  Henry Condell
• 36 plays, including 18 that had never been
  published
• New lines as well as new plays Q1 contains 285
  lines not in F1 Folio contains around 100
  lines not in the First Quarto of Lear, and lacks
  285 lines the Quarto does have
• 228 remaining copies out of an original 1000?
• Original price 1 2001 auction price 6.1 million

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ShakespeareFirst Folio edition, 1623
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King Lear title page of first quarto, 1608
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Niccolò Machiavelli (1469 1527) Il Principe
(The Prince), 1513 (published posthumously 1532
English translation 1640)
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• King Lear is a play in which traditional
• hierarchies are under stress
• Family/patriarchy
• Cordelia on bond (1.1.86ff)
• Cordelia on sisterly relations (1.1.270ff)
• Edmund the machiavel on custom also on fathers
  and sons (1.2.1ff)
• Lears curse of Goneril (1.4.270ff)
• Edmund on Edgars slyness (2.1.72)
• Lear on a childs offices (2.4.168ff)
• Household/class
• Goneril to Oswald on slack services (1.3.9ff)
• Kent on his qualifications to serve (1.4.32ff)
• Kent on Oswalds services (2.2.68ff)
• Nation/kingdom
• Kents multiple bonds to Lear (1.1.140ff)
• Gloucester on the eclipse-disordered world
  (1.2.103)

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• King Lear is a play in which traditional
• hierarchies are under stress
• Family/patriarchy
• Cordelia on bond (1.1.86ff)
• Cordelia on sisterly relations (1.1.270ff)
• Edmund the machiavel on custom also on fathers
  and sons (1.2.1ff)
• Lears curse of Goneril (1.4.270ff)
• Edmund on Edgars slyness (2.1.72)
• Lear on a childs offices (2.4.168ff)
• Household/class
• Goneril to Oswald on slack services (1.3.9ff)
• Kent on his qualifications to serve (1.4.32ff)
• Kent on Oswalds services (2.2.68ff)
• Nation/kingdom
• Kents multiple bonds to Lear (1.1.140ff)
• Gloucester on the eclipse-disordered world
  (1.2.103)

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Lears education?   1.5.24 I did her
wrong   3.4.29ff Poor naked
wretches   3.4.90ff Unaccomodated
man   4.6.145ff a dog obeyed in
office   4.7.45ff If you have poison for
me   5.2.8ff like birds ithe cage 5.3.310
Look on her, look, her lips
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Nahum Tate (1652-1715) Named Englands Poet
Laureate, 1692- Rewrote Shakespeares King Lear,
Coriolanus, Richard II (among other Jacobean
plays)
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From Tates King Lear, I.i Edgar Has Heaven
then weigh'd the merit of my Love,Or is't the
raving of my sickly Thought? Cou'd Burgundy
forgoe so rich a PrizeAnd leave her to
despairing Edgar's Arms?Have I thy Hand
Cordelia, do I clasp it,The Hand that was this
minute to have join'dMy hated Rivals? do I kneel
before theeAnd offer at thy feet my panting
Heart?Smile, Princess, and convince me, for as
yetI doubt, and dare not trust the dazling Joy.
Cordelia Some Comfort yet that 'twas no
vicious BlotThat has depriv'd me of a Father's
Grace, But meerly want of that that makes me
richIn wanting it, a smooth professing TongueO
Sisters, I am loth to call your faultAs it
deserves but use our Father well,And wrong'd
Cordelia never shall repine. Edgar O heav'nly
Maid that art thy self thy Dow'r,Richer in
Vertue than the Stars in Light,If Edgar's humble
fortunes may be grac'tWith thy Acceptance, at
thy feet he lays 'em.
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ENGLISH 2310 ENGLISH LITERATURE I QUIZ 7
(16) Who dies in King Lear, and how? Lear
France Burgundy Cornwall Albany Kent Glouce
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Edgar Edmund Oswald Cordelia Goneril Regan