King LearApplause Books, 1996 - 220 pages (Applause Books). These popular editions allow the reader and student to look beyond the scholarly reading text to the more sensuous, more collaborative, more malleable performance text which emerges in conjunction with the commentary and notes. Each note, each gloss, each commentary reflects the stage life of the play with constant reference to the challenge of the text in performance. Readers will not only discover an enlivened Shakespeare, they will be empowered to rehearse and direct their own productions of the imagination in the process. |
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Page xvi
... close of the first act , [ and ] his phrenetic appeal to heaven at the end of the second on Regan's ingratitude , were two such enthusiastic scenes of human exertion , that they caused a kind of momentary petrifaction through the house ...
... close of the first act , [ and ] his phrenetic appeal to heaven at the end of the second on Regan's ingratitude , were two such enthusiastic scenes of human exertion , that they caused a kind of momentary petrifaction through the house ...
Page 153
... close - up , as Cordelia stood silently reading and holding herself in check . When Kent makes a very obvious comment ( I. 15 ) —is he " moved " to tears too ? -the gentleman still holds back from recounting Cordelia's passionate ...
... close - up , as Cordelia stood silently reading and holding herself in check . When Kent makes a very obvious comment ( I. 15 ) —is he " moved " to tears too ? -the gentleman still holds back from recounting Cordelia's passionate ...
Page 205
... close with a sense that all in its tangled web was for the best . When Edgar comes to his father's death , his speech is suffused with pity and tenderness . He stops before all has been told , as Edmund , himself deeply moved , can see ...
... close with a sense that all in its tangled web was for the best . When Edgar comes to his father's death , his speech is suffused with pity and tenderness . He stops before all has been told , as Edmund , himself deeply moved , can see ...
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actor Alack Albany Albany's answer Anthony Hopkins arms attention audience Burgundy cester Charles Laughton Cordelia CORNWALL curse danger daughters David Garrick death disguise dost duke Duke of Cornwall echo Edgar Edmund Exeunt Exit eyes F omits father fear feeling fiend follow fool fool's fortune France GENTLEMAN give Glou Gloucester Gloucester's gods half-line hast hath hear heart heavens Henry Irving incomplete verse-line James Earl Jones John Gielgud Kent Kent's kill King Lear knave kneels Lear's leaves letter look lord madam master messenger mind night nuncle Old Vic OSWALD pain pause perhaps Peter Brook pity play poor Poor Tom Pray probably question reply scene servant sexual Shakespeare silent sister soliloquy speak speech spoken stage stands storm Stratford-upon-Avon suffering sword talk tears thee thine thou thoughts tion tragedy trumpet turns villain voice weep words