At the beginning of the play, we see Lear as a proud, vain, quick-tempered old king, not necessarily evil, but certainly not good. |
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A servant is sent to try to countermand the order, but Lear enters with Cordelia in his arms. |
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He recognised theatrical quality wherever he found it, and was not afraid to use the unusual, as in his orientally costumed 1955 King Lear. |
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At the same time, Tolstoy vitriolically attacked Lear, eccentrically stating a preference for King Leir. |
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With that, Lear cuts Cordelia off, deciding she will receive none of the entitlement. |
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Now I've got 9,000 hours total time, I'm an instrument-rated pilot, and a captain on a Lear Jet. |
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She fell into a bitter argument with her husband, who vehemently chastised Goneril for her mistreatment of Lear. |
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The Play of King Lear is a great tragic play that many tragedies try to compare to. |
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And even allowing that some of it may have been lost in the opening night fog, the movement in Mr. Lear is no great shakes. |
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Gloucester undergoes physical and mental torment because he makes the same mistake that Lear does. |
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To intensify the tragedy of King Lear, Shakespeare has not one but two tragic characters and four villains. |
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The Oxford editors first disentangled the two texts under their original printed titles of The History and The Tragedy of King Lear. |
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Of course I'm concerned about getting it right, but it holds no terrors for me because I have played Lear, and Lear is the most difficult of all. |
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Standing out, though, is his masterly rendering of Lear, conveying the many-sidedness of the old man's character and development. |
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The design comes into its own in the final scene, when Lear and Cordelia are laid out together, finally united in death. |
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Based on the life and nonsense poems of Edward Lear, the show was nominated for a Total Theatre Award and widely praised by the critics. |
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Diane Keaton directs and stars in this patchy comic King Lear about a dying father and his three daughters. |
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This is a Lear who learns too late that kingship is no protection against ordinary mortal suffering. |
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Enraged, Lear banishes Cordelia from the kingdom, only to later recognise the error in his judgement. |
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A new book from Mallory Ortberg imagines what literary legends including King Lear and Jane Eyre would have texted. |
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Norman Lear had a crisis while filming All in the Family about people genuinely taking Archie Bunker as a role model. |
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Surely you could visit these places independently outside of the auspices of a group, I say to Lear. |
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He is the permanent Fool to Gambon's raddled Lear, yet in his refusal to kiss his master reminds us that even the dispossessed have their dignity. |
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His stage credits include Richard II, Hamlet, King Lear, Hedda Gabler, Crime and Punishment, The seagull, and Terre Haute. |
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Later on, after the invading French army has been repelled, Lear and Cordelia have been taken captive and Edmund gives these chilling words to his captain. |
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Oh, I read a lot of excerpts, saw a play or two, took in the movie Shakespeare in Love and riffled through King Lear enough to realize he was no relation. |
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He called me Lear Dear and, except when he was at school, Frankie and I were inseparable. |
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At which point he settles into his late memoir years, graying like King Lear. |
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As with the fool in King Lear, there is wisdom in his lunacy. |
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If it were not the case, then there would be a Jonestown after every performance of King Lear. |
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But Lear insists his longer, more detailed journeys are more thorough, experience-rich, and luxurious. |
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But persevere with Lear because, while he is no Turner, taken on his own terms he has much to offer in works of a singular beauty which contain the clues to personal tragedy. |
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Lear is making progress unclothing himself when Gloucester arrives. |
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Over several years he has acted Coriolanus, Kent in King Lear, and a ruthless, fascistic Richard III in a production set in a version of 1930s London. |
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An aging King Lear is parcelling his land out among his daughters. |
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If Lear is played too old and too enfeebled to continue to do his job, then the play becomes a tragedy of old age and filial lack of attention, which is not the full play. |
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Lear enters, madly reliving episodes from his past, inveighing against female sexuality and reflecting on justice and authority in a poignant mixture of reason and madness. |
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In 2016, Ifans played Fool alongside Glenda Jackson in Deborah Warner's production of King Lear, at the Old Vic. |
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In 1833 he played in Antony and Cleopatra, in Byron's Sardanapalus, and in King Lear. |
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In 1846 Lear published A Book of Nonsense, a volume of limericks that went through three editions and helped popularise the form. |
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The nonsense verse of Edward Lear, along with the novels and poems of Lewis Carroll, is regarded as a precursor of surrealism. |
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The springboard for both the main plot and subplot of King Lear, in fact, is adulterous motherlessness, both suspected and admitted. |
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Olivier would have preferred the roles to be reversed, but Richardson did not wish to attempt Lear. |
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He was replaced around 1600 by Robert Armin, who played roles such as Touchstone in As You Like It and the fool in King Lear. |
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Dave Lear, an avid angler and former Executive Director of The Billfish Foundation. |
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Burbage played the leading role in the first performances of many of Shakespeare's plays, including Richard III, Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear. |
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Dalrymple takes his title from King Lear with Edmund's dismissal of scientistic buck passing. |
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It is also the first record we have of the great figure King Lear, and the beginning of the mythical King Arthur figure. |
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Olivier played King Lear, and Richardson took the title role in Cyrano de Bergerac. |
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When a little older, she moved on to reading the surreal verse of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll. |
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While EAM is a relatively small shareholder of Lear, it takes seriously its fiduciary obligations to its clients. |
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One can hear the echoes of King Lear as well as the completely different characters of Romeo and Juliet. |
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Directly east of Redditch in Beoley is Lear Corporation UK, who make car seats. |
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His King Lear once again divided the critics, but his Prospero was a considerable success. |
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In Shakespeare there are trials, in King Lear and The merchant of Venice. |
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Shakespeare's plays contain several tales relating to these legendary kings, such as King Lear and Cymbeline. |
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King Lear is not only portrayed as doddering, reduced to lip-smacking and pant-wetting, but deprived of coherent speech as well. |
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In 1983 he played his last Shakespearean role as Lear in King Lear, for Granada Television, earning his fifth Emmy. |
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Shakespeare's King Lear accuses Cordelia of undaughterly conduct. |
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Three days later, Lear finally ventured into the big whitetail's known haunt and staked out a spot for his Summit climber in a shagbark hickory on the back side of a ridge. |
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Poets include Robert Louis Stevenson, Vachel Lindsay, Christina Rossetti, Hilda Conkling, Edward Lear, Eugene Field, and more, including some treasured lesser known authors. |
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Why is the underplot of King Lear in which Edmund figures lifted out of Sidney's Arcadia and spatchcocked on to a Celtic legend older than history? |
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The business of the foot, generically comic and semiotically low, becomes in King Lear a key part of a radical inquiry into the ground of human being. |
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Unlike the introverted Hamlet, whose fatal flaw is hesitation, the heroes of the tragedies that followed, Othello and King Lear, are undone by hasty errors of judgement. |
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Sad, tender and funny, the quasi-autobiographical piece concerns a fusspot assistant to a famous British actor who's experiencing a breakdown during a tour of King Lear. |
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His return to the stage was in a production of King Lear, which was badly hampered by costumes and scenery by Isamu Noguchi that the critics found ludicrous. |
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Top golfer Payne Stewart died last night when his Lear jet depressurised at 43,000 feet over Florida and crashed after a bizarre thousand-mile ghost flight. |
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He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest works in the English language. |
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Huang's final chapter analyzes two versions of King Lear by the Taiwan-based dramaturgs Stan Lai and Wu Hsing-Kuo at the beginning of the twenty-first century. |
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