Excerpt from King Lear: Parallel Texts of the First Quarto and the First Folio
The Pide Bull quarto is noted as Q: in the Cambridge edition (vol. Viii), but has been shown, by Mr. W. G. Clark and Mr. W. A. Wright, in their preface, p. Xv, to be the first quarto edition of our play and has accordingly been marked Q: by Mr. H. H. Furness in his Variorum edition and by the editors of the Shakspere Quarto Facsimiles (nos. 33 and Mr. C. Praetorius and Mr. P. A. Daniel.
Six copies of this first quarto are known. In all of them the play commences on sheet B. (pp. 3 the title being on a separate leaf, but they differ in having 1, 2, 3, or 4 uncorrected sheets. In the present edition the six 00pies are marked as in the Cambridge edition.
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| ISBN: | 9780282625290 |
| Publication date: | 22nd April 2018 |
| Author: | William Shakespeare |
| Publisher: | Forgotten Books an imprint of Fb&c Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 188 pages |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: plays and playwrights |