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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... 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. GLOUCESTER This young fellow's mother could ...
... 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. GLOUCESTER This young fellow's mother could ...
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... lord. GLOUCESTER My Countess of Kent: remember her hereafter, as my honourable friend. EDMUND My services to your ladyship. KENT I must love you, and sue to know you better. EDMUND Lady, I shall study deserving. GLOUCESTER He hath been ...
... lord. GLOUCESTER My Countess of Kent: remember her hereafter, as my honourable friend. EDMUND My services to your ladyship. KENT I must love you, and sue to know you better. EDMUND Lady, I shall study deserving. GLOUCESTER He hath been ...
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... Lords of France and Burgundy, Gloucester. GLOUCESTER I shall, my liege. [Exit.] LEAR GONERIL LEAR Meantime we shall express our darker purpose. Give me the map there. Know that we have divided In three our kingdom: and 'tis our fast ...
... Lords of France and Burgundy, Gloucester. GLOUCESTER I shall, my liege. [Exit.] LEAR GONERIL LEAR Meantime we shall express our darker purpose. Give me the map there. Know that we have divided In three our kingdom: and 'tis our fast ...
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... lord. Nothing? Nothing. Nothing will come of nothing, speak again. Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth: I love your majesty According to my bond, no more nor less. How, how, Cordelia? Mend your speech a little, Lest ...
... lord. Nothing? Nothing. Nothing will come of nothing, speak again. Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth: I love your majesty According to my bond, no more nor less. How, how, Cordelia? Mend your speech a little, Lest ...
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... lord, whose hand must take my plight, shall carry Half my love with him, half my care, and duty. Sure I shall never marry like my sisters. To love my father all. LEAR But goes thy heart with this? CORDELIA Ay my good lord. LEAR So young ...
... lord, whose hand must take my plight, shall carry Half my love with him, half my care, and duty. Sure I shall never marry like my sisters. To love my father all. LEAR But goes thy heart with this? CORDELIA Ay my good lord. LEAR So young ...
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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