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Excerpt from King Lear: A Tragedy in Five Acts
Every volume of the series has been provided with a. Glossary, an Essay upon Metre, and an Index; and Appendices have been added upon points of special interest which could not conveniently be treated in the Introduction or the Notes. The text is based by the several Editors on that of the Globe edition.
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Excerpt from King Lear: A Tragedy in Five Acts
King Lear was first printed, in quarto form, in 1608. Two editions of it appeared in that year. Their relationship and order of publication were for long doubtful , but it is now certain that the earlier is that which bears the following title-page: -
M. William Shak-speare: | His | True Chronicle Historie of the life and | death of King Lear and his three | Daughters. | With the unfortunate life of Edgar, sonne |and heire to the Earle of Gloster, and his | sullen and assumed humor of | Tom of Bedlam: | As it was played before the Kings Maiestie at Whitehall upon | S. Stephans night in Christmas Hollidayes. | By his Maiesties seruants playing vsually at the Gloabe | on the Bancke-side. | London, | Printed for Nathaniel Butter, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls | Church-yard at the signe of the Pide Bull neere | St. Austins Gate. 1608.
Of this edition six copies are known to be extant. But these copies are not uniform. All besides being carelessly printed, are composed indiscriminately of corrected and uncorrected sheets, with the result that only two of the six copies are identical, and that not one of them contains a fully revised text. The second quarto edition has the same title, but it omits all mention of the place of sale, having merely "Printed for Nathaniel Butter. | 1608", a circumstance which gives the other the distinctive title of the "Pide Bull edition".
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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