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 ...
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... took his head tenderly into his lap , an admired moment of pathos ( promptbook ; The Times , 1 December 1976 ) . In the 1971 film this sequence took place on a huge deserted beach , where ' the two ashen old men are alone by the water's ...
... took his head tenderly into his lap , an admired moment of pathos ( promptbook ; The Times , 1 December 1976 ) . In the 1971 film this sequence took place on a huge deserted beach , where ' the two ashen old men are alone by the water's ...
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