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Shakespeare's Revision of KING LEAR
By (Author) Steven Urkowitz
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
822.33
Paperback
182
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
255g
Of the three texts of King Lear--the Quarto version printed in 1608, the Folio edition of 1623, and the modern composite of these two early texts--it has been assumed that both the Quarto and Folio versions arc distortions of an unblemished original" now lost and that only the modern text accurately approaches Shakespeare's lost original manuscript