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- Edition: King Lear
King Lear (Modern, Folio)
- Introduction
- Texts of this edition
- Contextual materials
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- Holinshed on King Lear
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- The History of King Leir
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- Albion's England (Selection)
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- Hardyng's Chronicle (Selection)
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- Kings of Britain
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- Chronicles of England
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- Faerie Queene
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- The Mirror for Magistrates
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- The Arcadia
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- A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures
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- Aristotle on tragedy
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- The Book of Job (Selections)
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- The Monk's Tale (Selections)
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- The Defense of Poetry
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- The First Blast of the Trumpet
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- Basilicon Doron
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- On Bastards
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- On Aging
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- King Lear (Adapted by Nahum Tate)
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- Facsimiles
I will have my revenge ere I depart his house.
How, my lord, I may be censured, that nature 1973thus gives way to loyalty, something fears me to 1974think of.
I now perceive it was not altogether your 1976brother's evil disposition made him seek his death, but 1977a provoking merit set a-work by a reprovable badness 1978in himself.
How malicious is my fortune that I must 1980repent to be just! This is the letter which he spoke of, 1981which approves him an intelligent party to the 1982advantages of France. O heavens, that this treason were not, 1983or not I the detector!
Go with me to the duchess.
If the matter of this paper be certain, you have 1986mighty business in hand.
True or false, it hath made thee Earl of 1988Gloucester. Seek out where thy father is, that he may be 1989ready for our apprehension.
[Aside] If I find him comforting the King, it will stuff 1991his suspicion more fully. [Aloud] I will persevere in my course of 1992loyalty, though the conflict be sore between that and 1993my blood.
I will lay trust upon thee, and thou shalt find 1995a dear father in my love.