King LearBristol Classical Press, 1987 - 247 pages |
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Page 127
... Kean threw down his hat as he spoke ; Kent retrieved it . 203-10 Garrick and Coleman cut the rest of Lear's speech here , supplying a tidy line from Tate , ' Than have my smallest wants supplied by her . ' Charles Kean and Irving also ...
... Kean threw down his hat as he spoke ; Kent retrieved it . 203-10 Garrick and Coleman cut the rest of Lear's speech here , supplying a tidy line from Tate , ' Than have my smallest wants supplied by her . ' Charles Kean and Irving also ...
Page 161
... Kean and J.P. Kemble both cut Tate's opening scene , and Garrick cut it as early as 1756 , before his more extensive revisions in the late 1760s . Scene 1 For Macready , Charles Kean and Irving this was IV.2 , after , in Macready's case ...
... Kean and J.P. Kemble both cut Tate's opening scene , and Garrick cut it as early as 1756 , before his more extensive revisions in the late 1760s . Scene 1 For Macready , Charles Kean and Irving this was IV.2 , after , in Macready's case ...
Page 211
... Kean had Edgar , Albany , Kent and soldiers enter here . 268-70 Cut by Irving . 271 Irving made this a pitiful , despairing wail , and the next line a display of ' senile eagerness ' , leading to ' childish satisfaction ' over his ...
... Kean had Edgar , Albany , Kent and soldiers enter here . 268-70 Cut by Irving . 271 Irving made this a pitiful , despairing wail , and the next line a display of ' senile eagerness ' , leading to ' childish satisfaction ' over his ...
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