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...poor can be expected to go. Is there, then, hope for the poor? To answer this question, we need an understanding of who should count as poor. Some types of poverty are easy enough to identify. There is no way of escaping immediate diagnosis when faced with what King Lear called "loop'd and window'd raggedness...
...Lear also well knew, deprivation can take many different forms. Economic poverty is not the only kind of poverty that impoverishes human lives...
...easy about finding free time late in the semester, for senior directors the time could not be better for one last show. "I'd directed a play last spring, and I wanted to try one more play before I graduated," said David Egan '00, who is directing King Lear...
...King Lear, Egan's goal is to get down to the foundations of the text, stripping away all that is superfluous to the characters and their situations. Though the production will be largely in a traditional style, he says that the differences which separate his version from a more conventional treatment are in a large part a matter of set design. Egan claims that the set will allow the show "to slowly strip away layer after layer leaving nothing but barren nakedness at the end." It is also important to him to challenge the notion that Lear requires a level...
...from this second U.S. release, could leave a listener in a bout of ecstatic addiction. It succeeds as one of the few pop songs that uses string instruments without contrivance or false pathos. "I caught a glimpse, and it's not me," rasps Matthews, an utterance worthy of King Lear thrown out into the night. In "Shoot the Messenger," Matthews morphs again to give a convincing invocation of Tom Waits circa his "Rain Dogs" album, albeit with a Welsh twang in tow. Yet overall the album causes a disconcerting flush and distress at its inconsistency. Matthews' voice is too good...