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...For Sapani’s Lear, the division of his kingdom is a demonstration of his power, carving up a country to suit his whim....
...is part of why many of the true greats — Beethoven, Austen, McCartney, Shakespeare, Davis — are in fact underrated, because no one likes to admit that they have only just discovered Kind of Blue or King Lear...
...The sly, double-crossing Edmund from King Lear? No, it’s Falstaff, the roguish old knight who hangs out with Prince Hal in east London’s less reputable taverns in Henry IV....
...July 9 to August 17; further information and tickets here ‘King Lear’, Fairfax Studio (Arts Centre Melbourne) Robert Menzies (who also appears in the above-mentioned drama Seventeen) plays Lear in Peter...
...And then there is the looming presence of William Shakespeare....
...‘King Lear’, Almeida Theatre Yaël Farber directs Danny Sapani (Killing Eve, Black Panther) in the title role of the Shakespearean tragedy....
...There’s more than a hint of Tennessee Williams in Cleage’s story of gentleman callers, booze-fuelled hopes, bitter regrets and fading beauty....
...“I wrote a chapter on King Lear, and he said, ‘All that stuff at the front is very interesting but you’re basically just showing off....
..., William Shakespeare’s best play....
...Are contemporary playwrights crafting their own versions of King Lear? Sonia Friedman thinks so....
...(Smithard had recently shot Hopkins in King Lear, a play with which The Father has thematic parallels, but Zeller says this was “almost coincidence”.)...
...A few months ago I came across an engaging piece in the pages of a literary journal, an exhortation to rediscover William Godwin’s 1794 novel Caleb Williams....
...During the Californian gold rush, there are stories of miners thronging improvised theatres to see Richard III and King Lear, and touring companies at every corner of the frontier....
...British sitcom Upstart Crow reimagines The Bard as the ordinary bloke he may have been, with a script that’s slightly more accessible than King Lear....
...Uglow flings open the doors to Edward Lear’s villa in San Remo, where Lear entertained endless guests and wrote all the nonsense verse he wanted, free from scorn and the rigidity of 19th-century English...
...After all, William Shakespeare allegedly wrote King Lear during a plague, Sir Isaac Newton reportedly formulated the theory of gravity in quarantine in the 17th century, while Alexander Pushkin wrote some...
...NO-DEAL SONNET 18 William Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a catastrophe?Thou art more silly and more self-imposed. THE LISTENERSWalter De La Mare ‘Is there anybody there?’...
...the way she has also delivered a series of acclaimed theatrical performances, winning Olivier Awards for her turns in the title role of Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Christie and as Stella Kowalski in Tennessee Williams...
...We end, in 1951, as Ludwig Wittgenstein tells a friend that his later work should carry a motto from King Lear: “I’ll teach you differences.”...
...The physical, slapstick-heavy parts of Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Dogberry in Much Ado were written specifically for William Kemp, the greatest comedian of the day....
...When Shakespeare has Iago say, “I am not what I am”, or King Lear say, “Nothing will come of nothing”, he intends a productive paradox: the compressed expression of a complex idea....
...When a new Royal Shakespeare Company translation of The Tempest opened in Beijing this summer, the tickets sold out within days — as they did for the RSC’s Chinese-language version of King Lear last year...
...Anybody could enjoy transient fame by turning out “well made shit” (William Douglas-Home was thrust forward as an example); but to change the world, she wrote, “you have to face the firing squad”....
...Here it’s a timeless fable, delivering enduring truths, that takes its cue from Kent’s early warning to the king: “See better, Lear.”...
...Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense, by Jenny Uglow, Faber, RRP£25 There’s more than nonsense to Edward Lear....
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