King Lear: BBC Dramatization (BBC Radio Presents)
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (695 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0553455389 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 379 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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King Lear - BBC Dramatization - Gielgud Stephen No comment on the play itself, of course.A very good dramatization of the classic play and with Sir Gielgud's interpretation. A must buy if you want to hear the play.. Not Abridged! 3-CD Set. With John Gielgud, Kenneth Brannaugh and Bob Hoskins my hopes were high for this. But somehow Gielgud lacks the anger and power of Olivier's 1983 version. Also, actors sitting at a table reading into microphones somehow miss the passion of an actual performance. Still, . but what's it all mean ? Orrin C. Judd One of the things you can assume when you write about Shakespeare--given the hundreds of thousands of pages that have already been written about him in countless books, essays, theses and term papers--is that whatever you say will have been said before, and then denounc
The king and others pay dearly for their shortcomings–as madness, murder, and the anguish of insight and forgiveness that arrive too late combine to make this an all-embracing tragedy of evil and suffering.Each Edition Includes:• Comprehensive explanatory notes • Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship • Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English• Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories • An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmographyFrom the Paperback edition.. A king foolishly divides his kingdom between his scheming two oldest daughters and estranges himself from the daughter who loves him. So begins this profoundly moving and disturbing tragedy that, perhaps more than any other work in literature, challenges the notion of a coherent and just universe
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