Table of Contents
Preface ix
A Note on References xxi
Part 1 The Quarto, 1608 1
Chapter 1 King Lear at the Printer 3
Chapter 2 Adjusting Text Space to Print Space in the Shakespeare Folio and Quartos 36
Chapter 3 Nicholas Okes Compresses the Play 72
Chapter 4 Nicholas Okes Abridges It 129
Part 2 The Folio, 1623 171
Chapter 5 One Play, One Manuscript, Two Printed Books 173
Chapter 6 The Folio Editors Regularize Shakespeare 200
Chapter 7 The King's Men Abridge a Tragedy 225
Part 3 The One King Lear 267
Chapter 8 The "Two Versions" Revisited 269
Conclusion: Toward a New Consensus 310
Appendix 1 Illustrations and Commentary 331
Appendix 2 Space Saving in Qi King Lear 339
Notes 349
Index 385