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Performance, Annotation, and the Play of Interpretative Possibility: The Opening of King Lear
- Shakespeare Bulletin
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 38, Number 2, Summer 2020
- pp. 205-224
- 10.1353/shb.2020.0020
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Abstract:
This article begins as a closeexamination of the contrasting ways in which a short passage from theopening of Shakespeare's King Lear has been explicated in modern editionsof the play. From this micro-study it then seeks to develop largerquestions about the current practice of annotation in Shakespeare editionsand to sketch some propositions about how certain problems might beaddressed.