Cover13; -- Licence and Use13; -- Title Page13; -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- A Note on the Author -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 0.1 Introduction -- 0.2 A note on the texts of King Lear -- 0.3 Acts and scenes in the Q1 and F1 texts -- Part 1. Approaching Shakespeare -- 1.19;A Man of the Jacobethan Theatre -- 1.2 Companies ActorsStagesAudiences13; -- 3.3 Venus and Lucrece -- 3.49;Errors and Two Gents -- Part 2. Approaching King Lear -- 2.1 Fathers and Daughters and Fools -- 2.28195;Unity and Division -- 2.3 A Play by Shakespeare -- Part 3. Actors and Players -- 3.1 Lear -- 2.2 Goneril -- 2.3 Regan -- 2.4 Cordelia -- 2.5 Albany -- 2.69;Cornwall -- 2.7 Burgundy and France -- 2.8 Kent/Caius -- 2.9 Gloucester -- 2.10 Edmund -- 2.11 Edgar/Poor Tom -- 2.12 Oswald -- 2.13 The Fool -- 3.14 Gentlemen, servants, &c. -- Part 4. Acts and Devices -- 4.1 Acts -- 4.2 Scenes -- 4.3 Soliloquy and Colloquy -- 4.4 Verse, Prose, and Song -- 4.5 Metatheatre -- 4.6 Doubling -- 4.7 Special Effects -- 4.8 Exits -- Part 5. Comedic Agony and King Lear -- Part 6. Critics Corner -- 6.1 Bibliography -- 6.2 Major films of King Lear -- 6.3 Web-sites -- Humanities-Ebooks.