Includes bibliographical references (pages [469]-470).
Introduction / Stanley Wells -- The base shall to'th' legitimate / Steven Urkowitz -- The folio omission of the mock trial / Roger Warren -- The diminution of Kent / Michael Warren -- Monopolies, show trials, disaster, and invasion / Gary Taylor -- "Is this the promis'd end?" / Thomas Clayton -- Cor.'s rescue of Kent / Beth Goldring -- Gon. no more, the text is foolish / Randall McLeod -- Revision, adaptation, and the fool in King Lear / John Kerrigan -- Folio editors, folio compositors, and the folio text of King Lear / Paul Westine -- Fluctuating variation / MacD. P. Jackson -- King Lear, the date and authorship of the folio version / Gary Taylor