King Lear

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

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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.

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