King LearBristol Classical Press, 1987 - 247 pages |
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... play , Shakespeare's King Lear ; rather it is a huge dramatic possibility , for the stagecraft of each period to shape for itself . This is to some extent true of all plays , of course : their authors commit them to the creativity of ...
... play , Shakespeare's King Lear ; rather it is a huge dramatic possibility , for the stagecraft of each period to shape for itself . This is to some extent true of all plays , of course : their authors commit them to the creativity of ...
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... play did not suit the times , and when the company was offered a rewritten version of it in 1681 by the young Irish poet Nahum Tate , it was pleased to switch to King Lear in his ' New - Modelling ' . It is a very different play . Tate ...
... play did not suit the times , and when the company was offered a rewritten version of it in 1681 by the young Irish poet Nahum Tate , it was pleased to switch to King Lear in his ' New - Modelling ' . It is a very different play . Tate ...
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... play by Beckett , such an array is inessen- tial in a world of moral neutrality . The cutting left intact , however , the prophecy uttered by the Fool at the end of III.2 , and this speech became the focus of a different interpretation ...
... play by Beckett , such an array is inessen- tial in a world of moral neutrality . The cutting left intact , however , the prophecy uttered by the Fool at the end of III.2 , and this speech became the focus of a different interpretation ...
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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