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THEATER: Finding the Windsors' Ancestral Lear...
THEATER: Finding the Windsors' Ancestral Lear...
Part court spectacle, part history lesson, part medical thriller, the play is above all a vehicle for Hawthorne, in a role akin to Lear. His George III even reads lines from Lear to one of his physicians in a scene indicating recovery. The action is set in 1788 and 1789, and the U.S. colonial uprising is just a bitter memory. The piece focuses far less on politics than on family life and the ambitious scheming of the Prince of Wales...
...agree. But Reitha was unable or unwilling to accept such an end. Loyola doctors put the couple in touch with surgeons at Children's Hospital who had previously operated on 10 sets of conjoined twins. Early last week the babies were flown to Philadelphia in a specially equipped Lear...
Instead, we seized upon a third roommate's copy of King Lear and, bundled head to toe in earmuffs, parkas and Bean boots, stomped into the middle of our courtyard...