The Complete King Lear, 1608-1623

This handsomely designed boxed publication provides all the elements a student or scholar needs to explore the two versions of "King Lear." The box contains faithful facsimiles of the First Quarto (1608), the Second Quarto (1619), and the First Folio (1623) to show the reader, as well as photography will permit, how the plays were originally printed. In addition, Michael Warren has prepared a parallel-text volume that sets photographs of the 1608 Quarto and the 1623 Folio side-by-side to permit close study of the variants between the two texts of one of Shakespeare's greatest plays.