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The one King Lear / Sir Brian Vickers.

  • Accession number

    83428332

  • Class

    Reading Room - 50.17 commentary/VIC

  • Physical description

    xix, 387 pages : 1 facsimile ; 24 cm

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Contents: King Lear at the printer -- Adjusting text space to print space in the Shakespeare folio and quartos -- Nicholas Okes compresses the play -- Nicholas Okes abridges it -- One play, one manuscript, two printed books -- The Folio editors regularize Shakespeare -- The King's Men abridge a tragedy -- The "two versions" revisited -- Conclusion : Toward a new consensus.