The Cambridge King Lear CD-ROM : Text and Performance Archive (CD-ROM)

1. The Texts: Finder Text; Quarto 1608; Folio 1623; The History of King Lear by Nahum Tate, 1681; King Lear, a Tragedy, by John Rowe, 1709; David Garrick's text, 1773; William Charles Macready's text, 1857; Charles Kean's text, 1858; facsimile of the 1608 Quarto; facsimile of the 1623 Folio. 2. Notes on the Text: commentary notes; staging notes; textual apparatus. 3. King Lear in Performance: English language performances from 1605?1998; 500 illustrations arranged chronologically and by act and scene. 4. Critical material. King Lear an introduction Jay L. Halio; King Lear a stage history Jacky Bratton; King Lear in North America Christie Carson; King Lear in Australia Philippa Kelly; Shakespeare without his language Dennis Kennedy; 5. Reference material: biographies; theatrical definitions and contexts; theatre and company desciptions; production reviews. System requirements The CD-ROM runs identically on PC Windows and Macintosh systems. All necessary search and display software and fonts are provided on the CD-ROM and do not need to be acquired separately. The following equipment is recommended: PC: 386 Or later; Windows 3.1+; 8Mb of RAM; double-speed CD-ROM drive. Macintosh: system 7 or later; 4Mb of RAM; double-speed CD-ROM drive.