
Ep 40 - Shakespeare's Tragedies
Hardcore Literature
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King Lear Is Unperformable
King Lear is unperformable though many have tried valiantly Ran by Akira Kurosawa is the best adaptation of King Lear that I know if you are subscribed to my YouTube channel You'll see that I have a 16 minute video breaking that down. We're spoon fed everything everything's visual whereas Shakespeare is an auditory pleasure. He said he saw peak fossil thwaite shortly before his death Play Lear the young Vic and this play energized me for weeks The storm on the Heath scene was tremendous. I remember bouncing out of the theater I was so excited They really did it well, they brought a sense of epic proportions to it.
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