Not Peer Reviewed
- Edition: King Lear
King Lear (Modern, Extended Quarto)
- 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
1969[Scene 12]
I will have my revenge ere I depart the house.
How, my lord, I may be censured, that nature 1973thus gives 1696way to loyalty, something fears me to 1974think of.
I now perceive it was not altogether your 1976brother's 1698evil disposition made him seek his death, but 1977a provoking merit 1699set a-work by a reprovable badness 1978in himself.
How malicious is my fortune that I must 1980repent to be 1701just! This is the letter he spoke of, 1981which approves him an 1702intelligent party to the 1982advantages of France. O heavens, that his 1703treason were not, 1983or not I the detector!
Go with me to the duchess.
True or false, it hath made thee Earl of 1988Gloucester. Seek 1708out where thy father is, that he may be 1989ready for our 1709apprehension.
[Aside] If I find him comforting the King, it will stuff 1991his 1711suspicion more fully. [Aloud] I will persevere in my course of 1992loyalty, 1712though the conflict be sore between that and 1993my blood.
32Exeunt.