King Lear at the Guthrie, 2017
I attended the last performance of #King Lear at the #Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota tonight. The backdrop to the stage made it seem the story was unfolding in a missile silo. It was acted very enthusiastically, with Edmund sometimes clownish in his villainy.
[Trailer]
Please chime in to discuss the play if you're a Lear fan.
I was struck at how Lear's discussion with Burgundy of Cordelia's dowry treated her like a whore for sale, and reminded me of Ophelia speaking of Hamlet's "tenders" of his affection, and her father saying she should charge a higher rate (legal tender), as well as other Shakespearean moments where a wife complains about a husband's secrecy and that she feels treated like a whore, for pleasure and comfort, but not for the sharing of secrets.
Favorite lines:
"'Tis the time's plague when madmen lead the blind."
"Get thee glass eyes;
And like a scurvy politician, seem
To see the things thou dost not. "
"The weight of this sad time we must obey,
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. "
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Links to a description of my book project:
On LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/eJGBtqV
On this blog: https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2017/05/hamlets-bible-my-book-project-im.html
[Originally posted on LinkedIn around the week of 3/6/17]
[Trailer]
Please chime in to discuss the play if you're a Lear fan.
I was struck at how Lear's discussion with Burgundy of Cordelia's dowry treated her like a whore for sale, and reminded me of Ophelia speaking of Hamlet's "tenders" of his affection, and her father saying she should charge a higher rate (legal tender), as well as other Shakespearean moments where a wife complains about a husband's secrecy and that she feels treated like a whore, for pleasure and comfort, but not for the sharing of secrets.
Favorite lines:
"'Tis the time's plague when madmen lead the blind."
"Get thee glass eyes;
And like a scurvy politician, seem
To see the things thou dost not. "
"The weight of this sad time we must obey,
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. "
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Links to a description of my book project:
On LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/eJGBtqV
On this blog: https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2017/05/hamlets-bible-my-book-project-im.html
[Originally posted on LinkedIn around the week of 3/6/17]
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