Shakespeare, W: Complete King Lear, 1608-1623

"The sample pages of Warren's proposed parallel text version of "King Lear made my hair stand on end, and I think they will do so to an audience that includes undergraduates and educated general readers as well as graduate students and scholars one might have imagined as the audience for such a project. To see equally valid and sometimes radically different versions of familiar lines . . . is to make one realize both the difficulty and excitement of editing Shakespeare in general and this text in particular. . . . [This project] will probably revolutionize the criticism of "King Lear."--Norman Rabkin, University of California, Berkeley