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1. King Lear

   New Critical Essays

   Edited by Jeffrey Kahan

   Series: Shakespeare Criticism

   Is King Lear an autonomous text, or a rewrite of the earlier and anonymous play King Leir? Should we refer to Shakespeare’s original quarto when discussing the play, the revised folio text, or the popular composite version, stitched together by Alexander Pope in 1725? What of its stage variations?...

   Published April 16th 2008 by Routledge
2. Shakespeare Imitations, Parodies and Forgeries

   Edited by Jeffrey Kahan

   Series: Subcultures and Subversions: 1750-1850

   Shakespeare Imitations is a collection of all-but-forgotten Shakespearean plays, composed between 1710 and 1820. These imitations, parodies and forgeries reveal the biases of eighteenth-century Shakespeare in London theatre. But these plays are far from derivative. Indeed, rather than simply...

   Published May 19th 2004 by Routledge