Word: cordelia
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...daughters scarcely help. Goneril (Jane White) spits out her lines like a fishwife. As Regan, Maria Tucci seems to be tapping an unseen toe in overwrought pique, and Michele Shay's Cordelia might have strayed onstage from an elocution class. Only Lee Richardson's loyal Kent seems equally loyal to Shakespeare. The rest outshine the dark with unlit candles...
...imaginary primitive, but he has been legitimately interpreted as the Colonial Victim violated by Western Man. Kate, of The Taming of the Shrew, may succumb to Petruchio, but not before declaring herself the most eloquent women's liberationist. There is no father who can look upon Lear and Cordelia without pangs, and as for Hamlet, he is so real that he has been psychoanalyzed (and found Oedipal) by Freud's disciple, Ernest Jones...
...into the swamps of Southeast Asia. Ubiquitous television sets keep vigil over three astronauts lost on a return flight from the moon. Murder in his mind, anguish in his heart, Brown must pace through his daily routine while mutely suffering Lear's rage at the fly that outlives Cordelia...
...hits here either, just a lot of honest musical fun and pathos from the man who produced and played on The Band's momentous second album. From the striding joy of The Real Woodstock Rag to the jazzy melancholy of King Lear's Blues (Cordelia), Simon shows an individuality all too rare in pop today...
Selective evidence is the device Fiedler uses to make his case, and some of it is weirdly selective. He brushes aside Cleopatra, Juliet, Desdemona and Cordelia, since they do not bolster the antiwoman argument, and dwells on the unflattering portrayal of Joan of Arc in Henry VI, Part I to establish Shakespeare's bias. It is more direct and more correct to recall that France was the hereditary enemy of England, and that precious few Frenchmen are depicted with anything but derision and distaste in Shakespeare. Apply the argument in reverse. Tennessee Williams has given us remarkable...