King LearApplause Books, 1996 - 220 pages (Applause Books). These popular editions allow the reader and student to look beyond the scholarly reading text to the more sensuous, more collaborative, more malleable performance text which emerges in conjunction with the commentary and notes. Each note, each gloss, each commentary reflects the stage life of the play with constant reference to the challenge of the text in performance. Readers will not only discover an enlivened Shakespeare, they will be empowered to rehearse and direct their own productions of the imagination in the process. |
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Page ix
... fall . While writing King Lear Shakespeare was very aware of this pattern for tragedy : the text refers to the turning of Fortune's " wheel " ( II.ii.166 ) , to the " rise " of one man's fortune when another " falls " ( III.iii.22 ) and ...
... fall . While writing King Lear Shakespeare was very aware of this pattern for tragedy : the text refers to the turning of Fortune's " wheel " ( II.ii.166 ) , to the " rise " of one man's fortune when another " falls " ( III.iii.22 ) and ...
Page 51
... falling * wear away blessings his performance : " You fall precipitately upon your knees , extend your arms , clench your hands , set your teeth , and with a savage distraction in your look -trembling in all your limbs and your eyes ...
... falling * wear away blessings his performance : " You fall precipitately upon your knees , extend your arms , clench your hands , set your teeth , and with a savage distraction in your look -trembling in all your limbs and your eyes ...
Page 88
... fall On her ingrateful top ! ° Strike her young bones , You taking airs , with lameness ! CORNWALL Fie sir , fie ! LEAR You nimble lightnings , dart your blinding flames Into her scornful eyes ! Infect her beauty , You fen - sucked fogs ...
... fall On her ingrateful top ! ° Strike her young bones , You taking airs , with lameness ! CORNWALL Fie sir , fie ! LEAR You nimble lightnings , dart your blinding flames Into her scornful eyes ! Infect her beauty , You fen - sucked fogs ...
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actor Alack Albany Albany's answer Anthony Hopkins arms attention audience Burgundy cester Charles Laughton Cordelia CORNWALL curse danger daughters David Garrick death disguise dost duke Duke of Cornwall echo Edgar Edmund Exeunt Exit eyes F omits father fear feeling fiend follow fool fool's fortune France GENTLEMAN give Glou Gloucester Gloucester's gods half-line hast hath hear heart heavens Henry Irving incomplete verse-line James Earl Jones John Gielgud Kent Kent's kill King Lear knave kneels Lear's leaves letter look lord madam master messenger mind night nuncle Old Vic OSWALD pain pause perhaps Peter Brook pity play poor Poor Tom Pray probably question reply scene servant sexual Shakespeare silent sister soliloquy speak speech spoken stage stands storm Stratford-upon-Avon suffering sword talk tears thee thine thou thoughts tion tragedy trumpet turns villain voice weep words