Word: lear
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...Winter's Tale, other late plays classified as "Romances," Cymbeline mixes comedy and tragedy, resulting in a drama unlike much of Shakespeare's more familiar work. Critics complain that Cymbeline simply rehashes elements of Shakespeare's earlier plays-one finds strong parallels to characters and relationships from King Lear, Othello, Romeo and Juliet-but producer Julia Griffin '03 takes the opposite view: late in his career, she contends, Shakespeare had "figured out what he liked and disliked in characters-so, for instance, he gave his heroine the best attributes of many previous heroines." She also notes that the play...
...visionary sort of way. The founding visionary of the modern Democratic Party, Franklin Roosevelt, was one of its most artful and charming shavers of the truth. There were giants on the earth in those days. Lyndon Johnson's mendacities achieved an infuriating magnificence, like King Lear playing three-card monte on the heath...
...Brattle Theatre (in its second year) entertained with Troilus and Cressida, Henry IV, Shadow and Substance, The Sea Gulls, King Lear and others...
...Gielgud was to theater: The Voice. It could draw a word out into a long cello note or quaver like the lead fiddle in the pit of a Victorian melodrama. It made Shakespeare's verse immediately comprehensible and ethereal: perfectly analyzed, beautifully felt. Declaiming the final scene from King Lear in his solo Shakespeare show The Ages of Man, Sir John sounded like a noble basset. "Howl, howl, howl, howl!" The tone was mournful, then (an octave higher) deranged, then weirdly ecstatic and finally strangulated, stilled...
...Lear also well knew, deprivation can take many different forms. Economic poverty is not the only kind of poverty that impoverishes human lives...