Question
Alexander Pope standardized the conflation of two different versions of this play, one of which may have been derived from its author’s “foul papers.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this play whose two extant versions differ by nearly 300 lines. In each version, a different character speaks this play’s last line: “The oldest hath borne most; we that are young / shall never see so much nor live so long.”
ANSWER: King Lear
[10e] The shorter and more muddled edition of King Lear is its quarto version, while its longer and likely later edition was published in this canonical collection of Shakespeare plays.
ANSWER: First Folio
[10m] The Folio edition adds two more repetitions of this word to King Lear’s final line, which he repeats before he exclaims “Pray you undo this button” and dies.
ANSWER: “never”
<HG, British Literature>
Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | Premiere | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University | Premiere | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges | Premiere | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 0% | 100% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Duke | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 67% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Emory | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 75% | 50% | 50% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Imperial | Imperial | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 0% | 40% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Indiana | Premiere | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 80% | 20% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Maryland | Maryland, Online | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 33% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2023 ARCADIA Online | Maryland, Online | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at RIT | Premiere | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Texas | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL | Premiere | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 0% | 67% |
Data
| Emory A | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Georgia A | Georgia Tech B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Georgia Tech C | Georgia B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Georgia Tech D | Tennessee A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |