King LearBristol Classical Press, 1987 - 247 pages |
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... followed , even though they returned to Shakespeare's text . Macready , Charles Kean and Irving all made the curse the finale of the act , and it has been done even so recently as Donald Wolfit's Lear . Macready followed Edmund Kean in ...
... followed , even though they returned to Shakespeare's text . Macready , Charles Kean and Irving all made the curse the finale of the act , and it has been done even so recently as Donald Wolfit's Lear . Macready followed Edmund Kean in ...
Page 79
... followed the same principle of abbreviation to a greater or lesser extent in their versions . The location is conventionally Gloucester's castle . Kemble set this scene impressively , on a deep stage with castle walls standing across ...
... followed the same principle of abbreviation to a greater or lesser extent in their versions . The location is conventionally Gloucester's castle . Kemble set this scene impressively , on a deep stage with castle walls standing across ...
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... followed Garrick in using Shakespeare's text of Lear's speeches ; Kemble returned to Tate's version . The conventional entry for Lear here , going back at least to Garrick , was from high up the stage : Wilkes described the effect of ...
... followed Garrick in using Shakespeare's text of Lear's speeches ; Kemble returned to Tate's version . The conventional entry for Lear here , going back at least to Garrick , was from high up the stage : Wilkes described the effect of ...
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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