Word: lear
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Dennehy is also unconvincing as Hugh, a brooding Lear figure who mourns the destruction of his community. Partly because of Friel's flimsy dialogue, Hugh's appeals lack the weight of his pivotal role in the play as the last stand against the encroaching English language...
Bennett recognizes a certain debt to a famous predecessor. As George recovers from his illness, he reads aloud from "King Lear" with his doctor. Bennett's king, however, is not about to be destroyed by his heirs and followers like his Shakespearean predecessor...
...these rather abstruse regulations limited the networks' ownership of the shows they aired and barred them from the syndication business. As a result, the networks were forced to acquire their shows from outside suppliers -- ranging from big studios like Universal and Warner to smaller, independent producers like Norman Lear (All in the Family) and Carsey-Werner (Roseanne...
...play has been transplanted from the teeming, multicultural world of 15th century Venice, Italy, to the teeming, multicultural world of 1994 Venice Beach, California, where Sellars lives when he isn't setting Don Giovanni in Spanish Harlem, putting King Lear in a Lincoln Continental or deconstructing other classic plays and operas. Shylock, along with the play's other Jews, is black. Antonio, the merchant of the title, and his kinsmen are Latinos. Portia, the wealthy maiden being wooed by Antonio's friend Bassanio, is Asian. But the racial shuffling is just one of Sellars' liberties. The stage is furnished with...
...Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear--it misses the point somehow," writes Hornby. You want entertainment? Go to the circus, or the theater, or the symphony...