King Lear (Quarto 2, 1619)

Introduction
2. Textual Introduction
Texts of this edition
1. King Lear (Folio, 1623)
3. Modern
5. Extended modern
7. Old-spelling transcription
8. King Lear (Quarto 1, 1608)
10. Modern
12. Extended modern
14. Old-spelling transcription
15. King Lear (Quarto 2, 1619)
17. Old-spelling transcription
Contextual materials
1. Sources for the Lear story
3. Holinshed on King Lear
5. The History of King Leir
7. Albion's England (Selection)
9. Hardyng's Chronicle (Selection)
11. Kings of Britain
13. Chronicles of England
15. Faerie Queene
17. The Mirror for Magistrates
18. Sources for the Gloucester plot
20. The Arcadia
22. A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures
23. Literary, political, and social contexts
25. Aristotle on tragedy
27. The Book of Job (Selections)
29. The Monk's Tale (Selections)
31. The Defense of Poetry
33. The First Blast of the Trumpet
35. Basilicon Doron
37. On Bastards
39. On Aging
40. King Lear's afterlife
42. King Lear (Adapted by Nahum Tate)
Facsimiles

0.1M. William [Shake]-speare,
 HIS
 True Chronicle History of the life
 and death of King Lear, and his
 three Daughters.
 With the vnfortunate life of Edgar,
 sonne and heire to the Earle of Glocester, and
 his sullen and assumed humour of TOM
 of Bedlam.
 As it was plaid before the Kings Maiesty at White-Hall, vp-
 pon S. Stephens night, in Christmas Hollidaies.
 By his Maiesties Seruants, playing vsually at the
 Globe on the Banck-side.
 Printed for Nathaniel Butter.
 1608.

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King Lear (Quarto 2, 1619)