Exeunt with a dead march
TEXTUAL NOTES
Q = First Quarto text of 1608
F = First Folio text of 1623
F2 = a correction introduced in the Second Folio text of 1632
Ed = a correction introduced by a later editor
SD = stage direction
SH = speech heading (i.e. speaker’s name)
List of parts = Ed
EDMUND sometimes spelled Edmond, often referred to in directions and speech headings as Bastard
1.1.30 SD one … then = Q. Not in F 33 lord = F. Q = Liege 36 fast = F. Q = first 37 age = F. Q = state 38 Conferring = F. Q = Confirming strengths = F. Q = yeares 38–43 while … now = F. Not in Q 47–48 Since … state = F. Not in Q 57 found = F. Q = friend 62–63 and … rivers = F. Not in Q 66 of Cornwall = F. Q = to Cornwell, speake 77 ponderous = F. Q = richer 81 conferred = F. Q = confirm’d 82 our … love = F. Q = the last, not least in our deere loue 84 interessed = Ed. F = interest draw = F. Q = win 87 SH LEAR Nothing? … Nothing. = F. Not in Q 103 sisters = F. Q = sisters, to loue my father all. 110 mysteries = F2. F = miseries. Q = mistresse night = F. Q = might 118 shall … bosom = F. Q = Shall 136 shall = F. Q = still 151 falls = F. Q = stoops Reserve thy state = F. Q = Reuerse thy doome 158 pawn = F. Q = a pawne 159 ne’er = F. Q = nor 164 SH LEAR = Q. F = Kear. 165 SH KENT = Q. F = Lent. 167 Miscreant = F. Q = recreant 168 SH ALBANY … forbear. = F. Not in Q SH CORDELIA some editors expand F’s Cor. to Cornwall 170 gift = F. Q = doome 175 strained = F. Q = straied 176 sentences = F corrected. F uncorrected, Q = sentence 179 Five = F. Q = Foure 180 disasters = F. Q = diseases 181 sixth = F. Q = fift 182 next = Ed. F, Q = tenth 187 Freedom = F. Q = Friendship 194 SH CORDELIA = F (corrected). Some editors expand to Cornwall. Q = Glost. 213 Dowered = F. Q = Couered 225 object = F. Q = best obiect 234 Should = F. Q = Could 237 will = F. Q = well 238 make known = F. Q = may know 248 but = F. Q = no more but 252 regards = F. Q = respects 255 king = F. Q = Leir 263 respect and fortunes = F. Q = respects / Of fourtune 270 my = F. Q = thy 286 Love = F. Q = vse 291 SH REGAN = F (Regn). Q = Gonorill 292 SH GONERIL = F. Q = Regan 295 want = F. Q = worth 296 plighted = F. Q = pleated 297 with shame derides = F. Q = shame them derides 306 not been = Q. F = beene 319 sit = F. Q = hit
1.2.1 SH EDMUND = Ed. F, Q = Bast. (throughout) 13 tirèd = F. Q = lyed 18 fine word, ‘legitimate’ = F. Not in Q 21 to th’legitimate = F. Sometimes emended to top the legitimate 24 Prescribed = F. Q = subscribd 38 o’erlooking = F. Q = liking 53 wake = F. Q = wakt 55 you to this = F. Q = this to you 67 declined = F. Q = declining 80 that … writ = F. Q = he hath wrote 81 other = F. Q = further 99–104 This … graves = F. Not in Q 106–7 honesty! ’Tis strange = F. Q = honest, strange strange 111 stars = F. Q = the starres 113 spherical = F. Q = spirituall 117 a star = F. Q = Starres 119 I should = F. Q = Fut, I should. 120 maidenliest spelled maidenlest in F and Q 121 bastardizing = F. Q = bastardy 122 Pat = F. Q = Edgar; and out 123 sigh … o’Bedlam = F. Q = sith like them of Bedlam 124 Fa … mi. = F. Not in Q 130 writes = F. Q = writ 146–49 I … brother? = F. Not in Q 150 I am = F. Q = go arm’d, I am
1.3.0 SD Steward = F. Q = Gentleman 3 SH OSWALD = Ed. F = Ste. Q = Gent. (throughout) 14 I’d = F. Sometimes emended to I’ll 15 distaste = F. Q = dislike 17 have said = F. Q = tell you 20 so. = F. Q = so. I would breed from hence occasions, and I shall, That I may speak: 21 course. Prepare = F. Q = very course, goe prepare
1.4.1 will = F. Q = well 6 So … thy = F. Q = thy 7 SD Horns … Attendants = F. Q = Enter Lear 43 SD Enter Steward appears one line later in F 49 SH KNIGHT = F (spelled Knigh here and on two other occasions in Act 1 scene 4). Q = Kent daughter = Q. F = Daughters 51 SH KNIGHT = F. Q = seruant (throughout) 57 of kindness appears = F. Q = apeer’s 66 purpose = F. Q = purport 73 SD Enter Steward placed one line later in F 78 these = F. Q = this your pardon = F. Q = you pardon me 80 strucken = F. Q = struck 86 Have … So = F. Q = you haue wisedome 93 SH LEAR Why, my boy? = F. Q = Kent. Why Fool? 102 all my = F. Q = any 106 the Lady Brach = F. Q = Ladie oth’e brach 107 gall = F. Q = gull 110 nuncle = F. Q = vncle 121 SH KENT = F. Q = Lear 130 one = F. Q = foole 141 grace = F. Q = wit 143 And = F. Q = They to = F. Q = doe 152 fool = F. Q = fooles 164 You = F. Q = Methinks you 166 frowning = F. Q = frowne 171 nor crust = F. Q = neither crust nor crumb = Q. F = not crum 173 shelled spelled sheal’d in F, sheald in Q 188 know = F. Q = trow 193 I = F. Q = Come sir, I your = F. Q = that 195 transport = F. Q = transforme 199 This = F. Q = why this 201 weakens, his = F. Q = weaknes, or his 202 Ha! Waking? = F. Q = sleeping or wakeing; ha! sure 204 SH FOOL Lear’s shadow. = F. Assigned to Lear in Q 206 This admiration, sir = F. Q = Come sir, this admiration 215 graced = F. Q = great 227 SD Albany = F. Q = Duke (throughout) 228 Woe = F. Q = We 229 Speak … my = F. Q = that wee prepare any 233 SH ALBANY Pray … patient. = F. Not in Q 234 liest = F. Q = list 235 My = F. Q = list my are = F. Q = and 246 Of … you. = F. Not in Q 258 cadent = F. Q = accent 262 Away, away! = F. Q = goe, goe, my people? 264 more of it = F. Q = the cause 273 thee worth them = F. Q = the worst 274 Th’untented = F. Q uncorrected = the vntender 275 Pierce = F. Q uncorrected = peruse thee! Old = F. Q = the old 277 loose = F. Q = make 278–79 Ha? … daughter = F. Q = yea, i’st come to this? yet haue I left a daughter 282 flay spelled flea in F and Q 285 that = F. Q = that my Lord 288–89 Pray … sir = F. Q = Come sir no more, you 297–309 SH GONERIL This … SD Enter Steward = F. Q = Gon. What Oswald, ho. 309 How now, Oswald? = F. Q = Oswald. Here Madam. 310 What = F. Q = Gon. What 318 condemn = F. Q = dislike 319 at task = F. Q uncorrected = alapt. Q corrected = attaskt 322 better, oft = F. Q = better ought