The First Quarto of King Richard III by William Shakespeare, ... - 9780521418188

Cambridge University Press

The First Quarto of King Richard IIIAuthor(s): William Shakespeare, Peter Davison\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521418188, 978-0521418188\nSynopsis\nShakespeare's Richard III presents difficult textual problems. There are 2,000 verbal differences between the text of the first quarto [tel] and the version in the First Folio [tel]. Although the narrative of the two plays is virtually identical, each has lines which are not found in the other, parts of the play are arranged differently, and the quarto deploys fewer characters. The text of the quarto is accompanied by a collation of variant readings and substantial textual notes. In a lengthy introduction Peter Davison proposes that Shakespeare's company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, used a memorially reconstructed text of Richard III during a touring performance of the play, and that text provided the manuscript for the 1597 quarto. Using exampl.