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 97
... storm in the skies also breaks out , there is a pause as everyone submits to the noise . Then Lear continues quietly . He has recognized the storm's destructive power in his own " heart , " and has drawn courage and resolution from that ...
... storm in the skies also breaks out , there is a pause as everyone submits to the noise . Then Lear continues quietly . He has recognized the storm's destructive power in his own " heart , " and has drawn courage and resolution from that ...
Page 99
... storm that still rages ; everyone leaves the stage in haste , and doors are strongly fastened . Does Gloucester attempt any further resis- tance ? Cornwall's repetition of Regan's order to " shut up your doors " ( II . 298 , 302 ) will ...
... storm that still rages ; everyone leaves the stage in haste , and doors are strongly fastened . Does Gloucester attempt any further resis- tance ? Cornwall's repetition of Regan's order to " shut up your doors " ( II . 298 , 302 ) will ...
Page 121
... storm , authority and the " great gods " above men's heads ( III.ii.47-48 ) . Edgar is silent at first - what could he say ? — but in reverting to his " fiend , " as if to escape , he mentions killing ( I. 145 ) and , at this , Lear ...
... storm , authority and the " great gods " above men's heads ( III.ii.47-48 ) . Edgar is silent at first - what could he say ? — but in reverting to his " fiend , " as if to escape , he mentions killing ( I. 145 ) and , at this , Lear ...
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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