Word: lear
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When Feuerstein arrived to assess the damage to a business his grandfather had started in 1907, he kept himself from crying by thinking back to the passage from King Lear in which Lear promises not to weep even though his heart would "break into a hundred thousand flaws." "I was telling myself I have to be creative," Feuerstein later told the New York Times. "Maybe there's some way to get out of it." Feuerstein, who reads from both his beloved Shakespeare and the Talmud almost every night, has never been one to run away, even though he wears sneakers...
...Tempest, as a ship careens in a gale, a sailor cries, "What care these roarers for the name of king?" In fact the storm does care. The waves are agents of Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, who is about to launch us into a sort of King Lear's Revenge. Once again we meet a deposed, aging monarch and howling winds. But if the storm on the heath undid Lear, the raging of the elements provides Prospero's salvation...
DIED. ROSALIND CASH, 56, screen and stage actor; of cancer; in Los Angeles. A founder of the Negro Ensemble Company in the '60s and a major black film star of the '70s, Cash enlivened classic classics (King Lear), modern classics (Lonne Elder's Ceremonies in Dark Old Men) and pulp classics (the 1971 sci-fi flick The Omega...
...REMINDED OF SHAKESPEARE'S COMment on justice in King Lear: ''Through tattered clothes small vices do appear;/ Robes and furred gowns hide all./ Plate sin with gold,/ And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;/ Arm it in rags, a pygmy's straw does pierce it." JANICE JOHNSON, San Gabriel, California...
...their Shakespeare straight up. But theatergoers centuries earlier preferred "improved" versions, including Romeo and Juliet with a non-Kervorkian resolution. Among Shakespeare's self-appointed co-writers was the now forgotten Nahum Tate (1652-1715), who cut and pasted his way through Coriolanus, Richard II and, most notoriously, King Lear, to whom Tate restored sanity, crown and daughter Cordelia before the curtain fell. Among Lear's last Tate speeches: "Cordelia shall be a queen./ Winds catch the sound/ And bear it on your rosy wings to heaven./ Cordelia is a queen...