King LearBristol Classical Press, 1987 - 247 pages |
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... took possession of the Globe a period of comparative stability fol- lowed . It was also a period of great creative activity , during which Shakespeare's tragedies were written and performed as part of a large repertoire of new plays ...
... took possession of the Globe a period of comparative stability fol- lowed . It was also a period of great creative activity , during which Shakespeare's tragedies were written and performed as part of a large repertoire of new plays ...
Page 31
... took their Lears to America , where the play had previously hardly been seen , and it was to an American that Kean's mantle as Lear passed . Edwin Forrest was only nineteen in 1825 when Kean toured America playing Lear , but in that ...
... took their Lears to America , where the play had previously hardly been seen , and it was to an American that Kean's mantle as Lear passed . Edwin Forrest was only nineteen in 1825 when Kean toured America playing Lear , but in that ...
Page 91
... took with all aspects of his productions , Irving's patient rehearsing of the business between Craig as Oswald and a poor actor attempting Kent . ( Henry Irving , pp . 112-3 ) . Enter Fool For a discussion of the Fool , see Introduction ...
... took with all aspects of his productions , Irving's patient rehearsing of the business between Craig as Oswald and a poor actor attempting Kent . ( Henry Irving , pp . 112-3 ) . Enter Fool For a discussion of the Fool , see Introduction ...
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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