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King Lear
Paperback, 250 pages ISBN: 9781854597182Publication Date:
29 Nov 2004
Size: 210mm x 150mm£12.99 £10.39You save £2.60 (20%)

King Lear

By William Shakespeare Edited by Nick de Somogyi

Paperback £12.99£10.39

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The Shakespeare Folios series - offering the absolute authenticity of the First Folio in a totally accessible form.

'A quite wonderful idea... So blindingly obvious, I can't understand why nobody had thought of it before. I will certainly use the texts myself' - Peter Hall

This edition accurately reproduces the text of the Shakespeare First Folio (1623), but in modern type. At a stroke the dust of ages is blown away and what Shakespeare actually intended is revealed to modern readers.

Now Shakespeareans everywhere - students, actors, directors - can see for themselves what the Folio really says.

As a further aid to understanding, on each opposing page the same text appears in a fully modernised version - a useful safety net whenever the Folio becomes problematic.

Each volume also contains:
- an introduction to the particular play
- textual notes
- an appendix giving variant versions from the Quarto where appropriate
- a facsimile page from the First Folio

Paperback,250 pages ISBN: 9781854597182Publication Date:
29 Nov 2004
Size: 210mm x 150mm£12.99 £10.39You save £2.60 (20%)

Also by William Shakespeare:

As You Like It
Henry IV Part I
Henry IV Part II
Richard III
Much Ado About Nothing
Macbeth
Much Ado About Nothing
The Winter's Tale
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Othello
Henry V
Measure for Measure
Macbeth
Queen Margaret
Shakespeare on Theatre
Thomas More
The Tempest
Edward III
Cardenio
Hamlet
Romeo and Juliet
Julius Caesar
Richard II
The Winter's Tale
Othello
Richard III
All's Well That Ends Well
Twelfth Night
Romeo and Juliet

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Also by Nick de Somogyi:

Shakespeare on Theatre
The Tempest
Macbeth
The Winter's Tale
Much Ado About Nothing
Julius Caesar
Richard III
All's Well That Ends Well
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Romeo and Juliet
As You Like It
Hamlet
Twelfth Night
Henry IV Part II
Henry IV Part I
Measure for Measure
Othello
Richard II
Henry V

Go to author page...

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