King LearBristol Classical Press, 1987 - 247 pages |
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... Peter Brook Fool : Alec McCowen Maurice Carnovsky / Alan Fletcher Eric Porter / Trevor Nunn Michael Hordern / Jonathan Miller Harry Andrews / Edward Bond's William Gaskill Stratford - upon - Avon Old Vic , London St James's , London New ...
... Peter Brook Fool : Alec McCowen Maurice Carnovsky / Alan Fletcher Eric Porter / Trevor Nunn Michael Hordern / Jonathan Miller Harry Andrews / Edward Bond's William Gaskill Stratford - upon - Avon Old Vic , London St James's , London New ...
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... Peter Brook that it is the greatest stage piece in the language , ' all the magnificent art . . . is directed to one end ; the play's acting in a theatre ' , ' its full meaning can only be comprehended . . . on a stage ' ; 1 and those ...
... Peter Brook that it is the greatest stage piece in the language , ' all the magnificent art . . . is directed to one end ; the play's acting in a theatre ' , ' its full meaning can only be comprehended . . . on a stage ' ; 1 and those ...
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... Peter Brook had a sense of this when he suggested that ' Everywhere one looks , [ in the play ] one sees only the facades and emblems of a world . " 96 His vision of the tragedy banished the solid walls of state entirely , leaving the ...
... Peter Brook had a sense of this when he suggested that ' Everywhere one looks , [ in the play ] one sees only the facades and emblems of a world . " 96 His vision of the tragedy banished the solid walls of state entirely , leaving the ...
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