British & Irish, Shakespeare, Literary, English Literature 

In this edition of the play of King Lear my first object has been to give a text as good as possible. At the foot of each page I have endeavoured to show how the early editions of the play, on which a text must be formed, differ from each other, and when the old text has to be changed, to record such change, with the name of the editor who first introduced it, and the suggester of it (if any). Though the work of collating the early editions has been already admirably done, in 1866 by Mr. W. G. Clark and Mr. W. A ldis-W right in the Cambridge Shakespeare and afterwards by Mr. H. H. Fumess in his edition of King Leary the fifth volume of his Variorum Shakespeare (18 80), I thought it best to carefully collate the first edition of the play. Quarto i (the Pide Bull edition), 1608, with the second edition. Quarto 2(the N. Butter edition), 1608, and again to collate each of these editions of the play independently, with its text in the first edition of the works of Shakespeare (the first Folio, 1623), where it was for the third time printed. I have also recorded all but the minutest differences in the texts of some differing copies of Quarto i, and a few readings in the Quarto of It stands between Hanilet andO thello: the last page of Hamlet is 282 (misprinted 280); the first page ofO thello is 310, and is printed on the back of the last page of Lear, The page-numbers run from 283 to 309 (308 is misprinted 38).(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancin - from Amzon