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- 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
2266[Scene 16]
Welcome, my lord. I marvel our mild husband
Now, where's your master?
Madam, within, but never man so changed.
2273His answer was "The worse." Of Gloucester's treachery
2276And told me I had turned the wrong side out.
[To the Bastard] Then shall you go no further.
[Gives him a favor of some kind.]
[She kisses him.]
This kiss, if it durst speak,
Yours in the ranks of death.
[Exit.]
My most dear Gloucester.
2295Oh, the difference of man and man.
2296To thee a woman's services are due--
Madam, here comes my lord.
Exit [Oswald the] steward.
2299[Enter Albany.]
I have been worth the whistling.
O Goneril,
2302You are not worth the dust which the rude wind
No more, the text is foolish.
Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile.
Milk-livered man,
France spreads his banners in our noiseless land,
See thyself, devil.
2310So horrid as in woman.
O vain fool!
Thou changèd, and self-covered thing, for shame,
Marry, your manhood?--mew!
2312Enter a Gentleman.
What news?
O my good lord, the Duke of Cornwall's dead,
2315The other eye of Gloucester.
Gloucester's eyes?
A servant that he bred, thralled with remorse,
This shows you are above, 2324you justicers,
Both, both, my lord. 2328[To Goneril] This letter, madam, craves
2330Goneril
[Aside] One way I like this well;
Exit [Goneril].
Where was his son 2336when they did take his eyes?
Come with my lady hither.
2338Albany
He is not here?
No, my good lord, I met him back again.
Knows he the wickedness?
Ay, my good lord, 'twas he informed against him,
Gloucester, I live
2345To thank thee for the love thou showed'st the king,
39Exeunt.