Word: lear
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Professor W. R. Spalding, in the seventh of his weekly lectures in reference to the Boston Symphony concerts, will discuss Schumann's "Rhenish Symphony" and Belioz's "King Lear Overture" this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum. Selections to illustrate the talk will be played on the Aeolian Orchestrelle...
...LECTURE. "Brief Comment on Schumann's 'Rhenish' Symphony, and Berlioz's 'King Lear' Overture," Professor Spalding. (Selections will be played on the Aeolian Orchestrelle.) Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
...LECTURE. "Brief Comment on Schumann's 'Rhenish' Symphony and Berlioz's 'King Lear' Overture," Professor Spalding. (Selections will be played on the Aeolian Orchestrelle.) Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
...White, a well-known Shaksperean critic, describes "King Lear" as of all Shakspere's plays the largest in conception, the noblest in design, and the highest in art. Although almost universally associated with the three other great tragedies of Hamlet, Othello and Macbeth, it differs from all three in its essential purpose. Hamlet is a play of inaction and indecision; Othello is the story of the down fall of a great soul through jealousy, Macbeth that of a man overcome by ambition. The distinction of "King Lear" lies in the fact that it displays the tragic power of retribution over...
...arranging his characters Shakspere placed one set of virtues against a corresponding set of vices. Lear's two older daughters, Goneril and Regan, are contrasted to their younger sister Cordelia, and in the same way the character of Edgar, the Duke's lawful son, is contrasted with that of Edmund the bastard...