THE TRAGEDIE OF KING LEAR.
dc.contributor | Oxford Text Archive |
dc.contributor.author | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 |
dc.coverage.placeName | Oxford |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-14 |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T10:36:28Z |
dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T10:36:28Z |
dc.date.created | 1623 |
dc.identifier | ota:5710 |
dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/5710 |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/5710 |
dc.description.abstract | "One thousand copies of this facsimile have been printed"--verso of half t.p. Facsim. reprint of ed. published, London : printed by Issac Iaggard and Ed.[ward] Blount, 1623 with original t.p.: Mr. William Shakespeares comedies, histories, & tragedies Original colophon reads: Printed at the charges of W.[illiam] Iaggard, Ed.[ward] Blount, I.[ohn] Smithweeke [i.e. Smethwick], and W.[illiam] Aspley, 1623 Contents: The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor. Measvre, for measure. The comedie of errors. Much adoe about nothing. Loues labour's lost. A midsommer nights dreame. The merchant of Venice. As you like it. The taming of the shrew. All's well, that ends well. Twelfe night, or what you will. The winters tale. The life and death of King Iohn. The life and death of King Richard the second. The first part of Henry the fourth. The second part of Henry the fourth. The life of Henry the fift. The first part of Henry the sixt. The second part of Henry the sixt. The third part of Henry the sixt. The tragedy of Richard the third. The famous history of the life of King Henry the eight. The tragedie of Troylus and Cressida. The tragedy of Coriolanvs. The lamentable tragedy of Titus Andronicus. The tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet. The life of Tymon of Athens. The tragedie of Ivlivs Caesar. The tragedie of Macbeth. The tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke. The tragedie of King Lear. The tragedie of Othello, the moore of Venice. The tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra. The tragedie of Cymbeline |
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dc.subject.lcsh | Plays -- England -- 16th century |
dc.subject.lcsh | Plays -- England -- 17th century |
dc.subject.lcsh | Comedies -- England -- 16th century |
dc.subject.lcsh | Comedies -- England -- 17th century |
dc.subject.lcsh | Tragedies -- England -- 16th century |
dc.subject.lcsh | Tragedies -- England -- 17th century |
dc.title | THE TRAGEDIE OF KING LEAR. |
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otaterms.date.range | 1600-1699 |
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THE TRAGEDIE OF KING LEAR.
Actus Primus. Scoena Prima.
Enter Kent, Gloucester, and Edmond.
I thought the King had more affected the Duke of
Albany,
then
Cornwall.
It did alwayes seeme so to vs: But now in the diuision of the Kingdome, it ap- peares not which of the Dukes hee valewes most, for qualities are so weigh'd, that curiosity in nei- ther, can make choise of eithers moity.
Is not this your Son, my Lord?
His breeding Sir, hath bin at my charge. I haue so often blush'd to acknowledge him, that now I am braz'd too't.
I cannot conceiue you.
Sir, this yong Fellowes mother could; where- vpon she grew round womb'd, and had indeede (Sir) a Sonne for her Cradle, ere she had a husband for her bed. Do you smell a fault?
I cannot wish the fault vndone, the issue of it, being so proper.
But I haue a Sonne, Sir, by order of Law, some yeere elder then this; who, yet is no deerer in my ac- count, though this Knaue came somthing sawcily to the world before he was sent for: yet was his Mother fay . . .

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