APPENDIX C
The Text of This Edition
In accordance with the plan of this series, and by permission of the Oxford Press, this text of King Lear is a reprint of Craig's Oxford Shakespeare, with the following changes, made after a comparison of Craig's text with the First Folio and Quarto texts:
(a) Extensive additions to the First Folio text are indicated by brackets.
(b) I have followed the stage directions of the First Folio, wherever practicable, necessary additional directions being enclosed in brackets.
(c) Minor changes have been made as follows:
II. ii. 36 whoreson, cullionly barber-monger instead of whoreson, cullionly, barber-monger
III. ii. 14 Spit fire! spout rain! instead of Spit, fire! spout, rain!
III. v. 22 fully.— I instead of fully.I
IV. i. 77 bear instead of bear;
IV. v. 25 œillades instead of œilliades
IV. vi. 139 naught instead of nought
V. iii. 24 good years instead of goujeres
V. iii. 184 burst! instead of burst,
Villainy, villainous instead of villany, villanous (passim)
