King LearBristol Classical Press, 1987 - 247 pages |
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Page 203
... opening arms to admit Edgar . Komisarjevsky , whose productions leant heavily on beauti- ful stage pictures of a different kind , echoed his opening effect here by using the huge daffodil - like trumpets that had heralded Lear's entry ...
... opening arms to admit Edgar . Komisarjevsky , whose productions leant heavily on beauti- ful stage pictures of a different kind , echoed his opening effect here by using the huge daffodil - like trumpets that had heralded Lear's entry ...
Page 213
... opening , before ' the light dies out in the sky and darkness travels slowly down the steps . Line by line the motionless soldiers and courtiers fade from view : the light lingers for a moment on the dead Lear and Cordelia . Finally ...
... opening , before ' the light dies out in the sky and darkness travels slowly down the steps . Line by line the motionless soldiers and courtiers fade from view : the light lingers for a moment on the dead Lear and Cordelia . Finally ...
Page 221
... opening , as did the text Garrick eventually evolved for himself ; but J.P. Kemble and Edmund Kean both went back to Tate's quite different opening for the play . Its purpose is to set up a clearcut and recognisable action , with ...
... opening , as did the text Garrick eventually evolved for himself ; but J.P. Kemble and Edmund Kean both went back to Tate's quite different opening for the play . Its purpose is to set up a clearcut and recognisable action , with ...
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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