Folger Shakespeare Library's 1913 Edition of William Shakespeare's "King Lear"

GAPC: It’s a book required for private high school. Interesting

United States on Feb 09, 2023

shirley harrell: My son the ultimate gammer put down his game to read this book that I purchased for him for Christmas. Kisses and buy your child this book. Kisses and be blessed.

United States on Dec 30, 2022

Scott RolphScott Rolph: This is a classic story based on an actual historical event. However, Shakespeare changes the historical facts to create a moving tale of betrayal and redemption.

United States on Dec 13, 2022

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India on Oct 12, 2022

balvinderbalvinder: Shakespeare was an exquisite writer but this review is about this particular book and not him.
First of all, the binding is fine it isn't lopsided. thank god!! 😌😌
The text is small, so i don't recommend this for anyone with sight problems but it's good for students like myself. (The book is 17cms long and 10 cms wide) It would be easy to carry around.
Other than a few scratches on the cover it was delivered to me in pristine condition.
If you ask me i would straight up say, to buy it.
because in just 205 rupees it's a great deal with the illustrations and all.
Thank you 😄

India on Feb 15, 2022

Brandee C: Brand new, no bent binding, no crimped corners/pages.

Canada on Nov 03, 2020

Tom Gray: I am engaged on a project to read all of the literature that I was supposed to read in school but didn’t. ‘King Lea’r was the Shakespeare play assigned for the English literature course in Grade 13 during the 1964-65 school year. I honestly cannot remember the teacher who was assigned to my English class. It may have been Mr. Lloyd but I cannot remember. With ‘King Lear’, I have completed reading all of the five Shakespeare plays assigned to me in high school. I am very glad to have done this.
In my DVD collection, I have two productions of ‘King Lear’. One is with Ian Helm and the other with John Gielgud. I find the Gielgud production much the superior. Ian Helm’s Lear shouts at the beginning of the play, shouts in the middle of the play and shouts at the end of the play. There is no emotional development in his Lear. Lear’s descent into madness and his recovery from is masked by constant shouting. The Gielgud Lear is quite different. There is the development from narcissistic certainty to puzzlement that others are not as he sees them to a refuge from these contradictions in irrationality. For me anyway, the power of the play resides in this emotional...

Canada on Mar 02, 2019

Subhajit Dutta: Nice book from Folger. Each page of text contains side by side annotations & meanings. That really helps the second language readers. The topics discussed before the text is really very important. Like Shakespeare's language, his theatre, his life, summary of the drama etc.. Overall a worthy book in such a low price. And the critical passages provided at the end chapters of the book should get high praise. Thanks Folger Classic Library.. Thanks also to Amazon.in for so fast delivery..

India on Mar 29, 2016

Zan: I'm not here to talk about the content of the book itself, but more about how this edition is extremely helpful in understanding the Shakespearean language. It's an average sized study book, unlike most of the ones that my fellow students bought which was a smaller version of this book and in all honesty, looked annoying to hold. Came in great condition and got me through my English course.

United States on Jan 26, 2016

Rodolfo: "King Lear" is Shakespeare's most profound utterance. It is a work whose theme is love; its major concern is with the centrality of love in the formation of character and with justice, both social and divine. The final scene, which confirms this reading, is one of the great achievements of world literature. The play opens with the aging king dividing his kingdom among his three daughters in return for their declarations of love. King Lear gives love uncontrollably and expects to be loved in the same fashion. He tells us that he loved the little one, Cordelia, best (I.i.137, 245, & 336) and we must thus assume the most violent resentment on the part of the two elder daughters, who have learned to say not what they feel but what they ought to say. Cordelia's honestly proclaims that her future husband will of necessity have to share in her love with her father and this is understood by the latter as a complete rejection, worthy of curses and banishment. The "subplot" concerning Gloucester's two sons, Edgar and Edmund. We can understand Gloucester's love for both of his children as a relatively recent phenomena having required the gradual overcoming of his embarrassment at his...

United States on Dec 05, 2010