King Lear (Adapted by Nahum Tate) (Modern)

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

 [4.3]
3.0.11686Gonerill's palace. Enter Gonerill, [her Gentleman,] attendants.
3.11687Gonerill
 It was great ignorance, Gloster's eyes being out,
3.21688To let him live. Where he arrives, he moves
3.31689All hearts against us. Edmund I think is gone,
3.41690In pity to his misery, to dispatch him.
3.51691Gentleman
 No, madam, he's returned on speedy summons
3.61692Back to your sister.
3.71693Gonerill
 Ha! I like not that.
3.81694Such speed must have the wings of love. Where's Albany?
3.91695Gentleman
 Madam, within, but never man so changed.
3.101696I told him of the uproar of the peasants,
3.111697He smiled at it. When I informed him
3.121698Of Gloster's treason --
3.131699Gonerill
 Trouble him no further,
3.141700It is his coward spirit. Back to our sister,
3.151701Hasten her musters, and let her know
3.161702I have given the distaff into my husband's hands.
3.171703That done, with special care deliver these dispatches
3.181704In private to young Gloster.
3.18.11705Enter a Messenger.
3.191706Messenger
 O madam, most unseasonable news.
3.201707The Duke of Cornwall's dead of his late wound,
3.211708Whose loss your sister has in part supplied,
3.221709Making brave Edmund general of her forces.
3.231710Gonerill
 One way I like this well;
3.241711But being widow and my Gloster with her
3.251712May blast the promised harvest of our love.
3.261713A word more, sir: add speed to your journey,
3.271714And if you chance to meet with that blind traitor,
3.281715Preferment falls on him that cuts him off.
3.28.11716Exeunt.

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