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Tate, The History of King Lear (Pages 66-67)
Pages 66-67: Tate’s Lear ends with Lear and Gloucester alive and reconciled to their children, and Edgar and Cordelia jointly placed on English throne by Lear.
Tate, The History of King Lear (Page 63)
Page 63: In Tate’s version, Lear turns action hero, seizing a weapon from the guards and successfully fighting them off until Edgar and Albany rescue him and Cordelia.
Tate, The History of King Lear (Page 4)
Page 4: Cordelia’s criticism of Lear’s demand to occupy sole place in his daughters’ hearts is understood by Lear in Tate’s version as deriving from her love for Edgar.
Dryden and Davenant, The Tempest, or the Enchanted Island (Pages 30-31)
Page 30: Dorinda and Hippolyto (played by a female actor) titillate and amuse the audience by their confusion as they discover sexual feeling, without knowing what it is, having been raised in isolation from society on the island.
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Page 31:…
Dryden and Davenant, The Tempest, or the Enchanted Island (Pages 12-15)
Page 12: Charged struggles between Caliban and Prospero (above) are upstaged by focus on Prospero’s daughters’ introductions to men. Here Prospero’s added daughter, Dorinda, enters for the first time (below).
Page 13: Miranda and Dorinda reveal…
Page 13: Miranda and Dorinda reveal…
Mr. William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, Published according to the true Original Copies (Fourth Folio, Catalogue)
Epitaph by Milton and Catalogue of Plays
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