King LearBristol Classical Press, 1987 - 247 pages |
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Page 21
... Curse ' at the end of the first act . Most critical assessments of performance began with it ; success or failure here often determined the reception of the rest of the play . The short speeches of Goneril and Albany which Tate had left ...
... Curse ' at the end of the first act . Most critical assessments of performance began with it ; success or failure here often determined the reception of the rest of the play . The short speeches of Goneril and Albany which Tate had left ...
Page 23
... curse suddenly reversed by a devastating appeal to their sympathy . Such moments were the famous ' transitions ' of virtuoso acting ; and they depended upon the very intimate contact between audience and stage in the little Georgian ...
... curse suddenly reversed by a devastating appeal to their sympathy . Such moments were the famous ' transitions ' of virtuoso acting ; and they depended upon the very intimate contact between audience and stage in the little Georgian ...
Page 97
... curse . 245 Gielgud spoke very politely to Albany , so as to surprise the audi- ence with the change to a strange and deadly quietness as he began the curse ( Barker notes ) . 246 ' The Curse ' , the finale of the act in Tate's text ...
... curse . 245 Gielgud spoke very politely to Albany , so as to surprise the audi- ence with the change to a strange and deadly quietness as he began the curse ( Barker notes ) . 246 ' The Curse ' , the finale of the act in Tate's text ...
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actor ALBANY audience Barker notes Burgundy Byrne Charles Kean Cordelia CORNWALL critics curse Cut by Irving daughters Donald Sinden Donald Wolfit dost drama duke Edmund Kean effect Enter Edgar Enter Lear entry Exeunt Exit eyes father followed Fool Fool's France Garrick GENTLEMAN Gielgud in 1940 Gloucester Gloucester's Goneril Goodbody Granada TV Granada TV production hand hath Hazlitt heart Hughes Irving cut Irving's J.C. Trewin J.P. Kemble Kean and Irving Kean's Kent Kent's King Lear knights Komisarjevsky Laughton Lear and Cordelia Lear's London Drury Lane lord Macready's madam madness noble nuncle Oswald pathos Paul Scofield performance Peter Brook Phelps playing Lear promptbook Regan restored role Samuel Phelps scene Scofield servants Shakespeare Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Shakespeare's text Shakespearian sister speak speech spoke stage storm Stratford upon Avon sword Tate Tate's text Tate's version tears Theatre theatrical thee thou throne Trewin villain