[King Lear]
dc.contributor | Taylor, Gary OUP |
dc.contributor.author | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 |
dc.contributor.editor | Wells, Stanley W., 1930- |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T10:59:34Z |
dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T10:59:34Z |
dc.date.created | 1608 |
dc.identifier | ota:0123 |
dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/0123 |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/0123 |
dc.description.abstract | Title proper supplied by cataloguer Publication based on this text: The complete works / William Shakespeare ; general editors, Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor ; editors Stanley Wells ... [et al.] ; with introductions by Stanley Wells. -- Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1986. -- (Oxford Shakespeare). -- ISBN 0-19-812926-2. Publication based on this text: The complete works / William Shakespeare ; general editors, Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor ; editors, Stanley Wells ... [et al.] ; with introductions by Stanley Wells ; and an essay on Shakespeare's spelling and punctuation by Vivian Salmon. -- Original-spelling ed. / Stanley Wells ... [et al.]. -- Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1986. -- (Oxford Shakespeare). -- ISBN 0-19-812919-X. Another publication of interest: William Shakespeare : a textual companion / by Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor, with John Jowett and William Montgomery. -- Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1987. -- Partial contents: Pp. 69-109. The canon and chronology of Shakespeare's plays -- pp. 80-89. Function words. -- ISBN 0-19-812914-9. |
dc.format.extent | Text data (1 file : ca. 149 KB) |
dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
dc.language | English |
dc.language.iso | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
dc.relation.ispartof | Legacy Collection Digital Museum |
dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
dc.rights.label | PUB |
dc.subject.lcsh | Plays -- England -- 17th century |
dc.subject.lcsh | Tragedies -- England -- 17th century |
dc.title | [King Lear] |
dc.type | Text |
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branding | Oxford Text Archive |
files.size | 162872 |
files.count | 2 |
otaterms.date.range | 1600-1699 |
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<D {Enter Kent, Gloster, and Bastard.}>
<S {Kent.}>
*I thought the King had more affected the Duke of {Al}-{bany}
then {Cornwell.}
*<S {Glost.}> It did allwaies seeme so to vs, but now in the
*diuision of the kingdomes, it appeares not which of
*the Dukes he values most, for equalities are so weighed, that cu-riositie
in neither, can make choise of eithers moytie.
<S {Kent.}> Is not this your sonne my Lord?
*<S {Glost.}> His breeding sir hath beene at my charge, I haue so of-ten
blusht to acknowledge him, that now I am braz'd to it.
<S {Kent.}> I cannot conceiue you.
*<S {Glost.}> Sir, this young fellowes mother Could, wherupon shee
*grew round wombed, and had indeed Sir a sonne for her cradle,
ere she had a husband for her bed, doe you smell a fault?
*<S {Kent.}> I cannot wish the fault vndone, the issue of it being so
proper.
*<S {Glost.}> But I haue sir a sonne by order of Law, some yeare el-der
*then this, who yet is no deerer in my account, tho . . .