KingLear

2009 Modern Library Paperback Edition Copyright © 2007, 2009 by The Royal Shakespeare Company Interview responses by Deborah Warner in “Director’s Cut” copyright © 2009 by Deborah Warner All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Modern Library, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. MODERN LIBRARY and the TORCHBEARER Design are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. “Royal Shakespeare Company,” “RSC,” and the RSC logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of The Royal Shakespeare Company. The version of King Lear and the corresponding footnotes that appear in this volume were originally published in William Shakespeare Complete Works, edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, published in 2007 by Modern Library, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. eISBN: 978-1-58836-828-7 www.modernlibrary.com v3.1_r1 CONTENTS Cover Title Page Copyright Introduction An Old Man Tottering About the Stage? The Division of the Kingdom Ripeness Is All? This Great Stage of Fools About the Text Key Facts The Tragedy ......