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Show THE TUDOR SHAKESPEARE. The Tragedy of King Lear. Edited by Virginia C. GUdersfeeve, Ph. D., Dean of Barnard College. Columbia University. Univer-sity. Tho Macmlllan Company. Publishers, Pub-lishers, New York. It is a unique feature of the successive succes-sive volumes of Shakespeare in tho Tudor Tu-dor Edition, which is being issued by this great house, that differont exports, competent for the work, are editing the successive volumes. In every caso of tho fourteen volumes thus far issued, the editor has shown peculiar aptitude to oxpertly handle tho play which ho or she has had in charge. The text u6od in thin volume is tho same as heretofore, the Neilson Text copyrighted in J906 by William Allan Neilson. Tho same general plan is followed, fol-lowed, in giving a discussion of the text: it contains an elucidation of tho Lear story: a search into Shakespeare's sources: the relation of the play to con-temporary con-temporary drama; its stylo and stage history, and its interpretation. This volume is particularly rich "in notes, having fourteen pagos of them, and in textual variants covering seven pages. There is tho usual glossary, and aTto-erethcr aTto-erethcr tho volume is extremely fine. |