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...Shakespeare, as usual, offers the final triumphant words of common sense in unshakable terms (though spoken by a villain, Edmund, in King Lear...
...EDWARD LEAR, THE LIFE OF A WANDERER by Vivien Noakes. 359 pages. Houghton Miffllin...
...once had a drawing master who wrote The Owl and the Pussy-Cat. Subsidized as they were with honey and plenty of money wrapped up in a five-pound note, the owl and the pussycat went on to achieve that monumental Victorian ideal, a happy marriage. Their creator, Edward Lear, however, never wed, though he sometimes used to talk sentimentally about marriage as "making a nest in the olive trees." It is not recorded whether the little Queen gave so much as a fiver to her instructor...
Calais to Coromandel. A painter, poet and fantasist, Lear-as Vivien Noakes' biography makes clear-was a kindly, gifted man in many ways as mocked by madness and petty affliction as Shakespeare's eponymous king. The later Lear, however, played his own gentle fool; his tragedy was wistful farce. When he died in 1888, he left a jumble sale of assorted scribblings, some illustrated travel books rarely looked at any more and A Book of Nonsense, containing verses that will be heard as long as a rattle sounds in the cradle...
...company, may eventually give CBS as many as 20 plays for U.S. television and for later release as feature films. At present, Actor Paul Scofield (A Man for All Seasons) and Director Peter Brook (Marat/Sade, The Visit) are working together on an austere, black-and-white film of King Lear. On Sunday night alone, Hall estimates, the TV audience for A Midsummer Night's Dream will be large enough to fill the 1,426-seat playhouse at Stratford for 30 years...