King LearBristol Classical Press, 1987 - 247 pages |
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Page 11
... final scene . The subsequent fate of the Fool During the Commonwealth , while the theatres were closed , popular performances went on in hidden and submerged ways ; but when the London stage was re - established at the Restoration , it ...
... final scene . The subsequent fate of the Fool During the Commonwealth , while the theatres were closed , popular performances went on in hidden and submerged ways ; but when the London stage was re - established at the Restoration , it ...
Page 15
... final scenes where the evil - doers defeat themselves and the good triumph in their chains . Explicit motives are supplied , taken from the common stock of literary convention and therefore often coincid- ing with those Shakespeare had ...
... final scenes where the evil - doers defeat themselves and the good triumph in their chains . Explicit motives are supplied , taken from the common stock of literary convention and therefore often coincid- ing with those Shakespeare had ...
Page 24
... final burst of vehement energy , to rush off unaided . By Kean's time the cutting of the final speeches of the scene was complete , and it was repeated by the actor - editors who followed , even though they returned to Shakespeare's ...
... final burst of vehement energy , to rush off unaided . By Kean's time the cutting of the final speeches of the scene was complete , and it was repeated by the actor - editors who followed , even though they returned to Shakespeare's ...
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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 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 tragedy Trewin villain