Word: lear
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...fall of 1983, and my mom was already deeply immersed in her classes, teaching Shakespeare to 10th and 12th graders. Her leather bag was stuffed with copies of "Romeo and Juliet," "Hamlet" and "King Lear." I remember wondering, as I reached for the bright yellow booklet, what my mom, an inveterate and notoriously demanding teacher, would want with what were commonly known as "cheater books...
...attempted and achieved just that. His new play, A Counterfeit Presentment, challenges the traditional interpretation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, Hamlet. Funke’s play is a blend of Hamlet’s original text (as well as Othello and King Lear) and his own semi-Elizabethan prose. Although it would seem like a tall order to even attempt to change Shakespeare’s masterpiece, the mixture of the old material and Funke’s new lines works well...
...overwhelming reverence paid to Hamlet extends as far back as the late 17th century. While English dramatists of the Restoration were adapting Shakespeare’s plays left and right, altering them to fit the popular penchant for love triumphant and a happy ending, Hamlet remained untouched. Even King Lear got a makeover in the form of a glorious marriage between Edgar and the distinctly not-dead Cordelia. But the thwarted love, the suicides and the excessive carnage of Hamlet all stayed exactly where Shakespeare placed them, as though they were something permanent and unchangeable. With Samuel Taylor Coleridge?...
...wanted to live to be 150. He may have lived too long. Today his empire is in tatters, his heirs are squabbling and his flagship construction company is choked with debt. But last week, many Koreans were saddened by the passing of a larger-than-life figure humbled, Lear-like, by time and circumstance...