King LearBloomsbury Publishing, 2018 M08 6 - 104 pages Jonathan Munby's explosive revival of Shakespeare's epic tragedy transferred to the West End following its sold-out run at Chichester Festival Theatre. Performed by a celebrated cast led by Ian McKellen as the embittered monarch in a fractured kingdom. In this version the play has been cut back to its essentials to create a shorter play for a modern audience. Munby has also created a version to suit the intimacy and immediacy of the Minerva Theatre (Chichester), whilst harnessing what he describes as the "catapulting ferocity" of the play. Two ageing fathers - one a King, one his courtier - reject the children who truly love them. Their blindness unleashes a tornado of pitiless ambition and treachery as family and state are plunged into a violent power struggle with shocking ends. Tender, brutal, moving and epic, King Lear is considered by many to be the greatest tragedy ever written. |
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William Shakespeare. SCENE 15 SCENE 16 SCENE 17 SCENE 18 SCENE 19 SCENE 20 SCENE 21 SCENE 22 SCENE 23 SCENE 24 SCENE 25 SCENE 26 SCENE 1 Enter KENT and GLOUCESTER. KENT I thought the.
William Shakespeare. SCENE 15 SCENE 16 SCENE 17 SCENE 18 SCENE 19 SCENE 20 SCENE 21 SCENE 22 SCENE 23 SCENE 24 SCENE 25 SCENE 26 SCENE 1 Enter KENT and GLOUCESTER. KENT I thought the.
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... Enter EDMUND with ATTENDANT. ATTENDANT My lord. KENT Is not this your son, my lord? GLOUCESTER His breeding hath been at my charge. I have so often blushed to acknowledge him that now I am brazed to it. KENT I cannot conceive you ...
... Enter EDMUND with ATTENDANT. ATTENDANT My lord. KENT Is not this your son, my lord? GLOUCESTER His breeding hath been at my charge. I have so often blushed to acknowledge him that now I am brazed to it. KENT I cannot conceive you ...
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... desinet ac toto surget gens aurea mundo casta fave Lucina: tuus iam Apollo! Enter EDGAR bearing a coronet, LEAR, CORNWALL, ALBANY, GONERIL, REGAN, CORDELIA. LEAR The two great Princes, France and Burgundy, Great rivals.
... desinet ac toto surget gens aurea mundo casta fave Lucina: tuus iam Apollo! Enter EDGAR bearing a coronet, LEAR, CORNWALL, ALBANY, GONERIL, REGAN, CORDELIA. LEAR The two great Princes, France and Burgundy, Great rivals.
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... Enter GLOUCESTER, with FRANCE, BURGUNDY, and ATTENDANT. GLOUCESTER LEAR BURGUNDY LEAR Here's France and Burgundy, my noble lord. My Lord of Burgundy, We first address toward you, what in the least Will you require in present dower with ...
... Enter GLOUCESTER, with FRANCE, BURGUNDY, and ATTENDANT. GLOUCESTER LEAR BURGUNDY LEAR Here's France and Burgundy, my noble lord. My Lord of Burgundy, We first address toward you, what in the least Will you require in present dower with ...
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... with such disposition as he bears, this last surrender of his will but offend us. REGAN We shall further think of it. GONERIL We must do something, and i'th'heat. [Exeunt.] SCENE 2 Enter EDMUND , the bastard , holding a.
... with such disposition as he bears, this last surrender of his will but offend us. REGAN We shall further think of it. GONERIL We must do something, and i'th'heat. [Exeunt.] SCENE 2 Enter EDMUND , the bastard , holding a.
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1ST B.SOLDIER 1st BRITISH SOLDIER Alack ALBANY’S Ambassador Theatre Group art thou bastard blood brother Chichester Festival Theatre Countess of Kent Danny Webb dear Director doth Dover Duke of Albany Duke of Cornwall Earl of Gloucester Enter EDGAR Enter EDMUND Enter GLOUCESTER Enter KENT disguised Enter LEAR Enter OSWALD Exeunt LEAR eyes farewell father follow FOOL LEAR FOOL fortune foul fiend France give GLOUCESTER EDGAR GLOUCESTER LEAR gods grace hath hear heart hither honour i'the Jonathan Munby KENT LEAR KENT King Lear knave lady LEAR EDGAR LEAR FOOL LEAR LEAR GONERIL LEAR KENT LEAR LEAR REGAN LEAR’S LEAR'S KNIGHT letter Look lord ma’am madam man’s master Minerva Theatre never night noble nuncle o’er o’the pray Prithee REGAN CORNWALL REGAN LEAR Richard Clews SCENE Sinéad Cusack sirrah sister speak stand tell There's thine thou art thou dost traitor villain where’s