Patrick Page on King Lear and Shakespeare's Villains
Folger Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare Unlimited
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The Importance of Humor in a Scene
I think that Lear has absolutely no intention of crawling towards death. And I think a lot of times, Lear's humor is as Trump says, for example, at someone else's expense. That seemed to me to be very leer-like. The idea that leer would have been secretly under a doctor's care for quite some time and that no one absolutely no one can know about it. It takes off every single box for the symptoms that leer presents during the course of the evening. As one gets older, that becomes a little more difficult to present.
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