Patrick Page on King Lear and Shakespeare's Villains
Folger Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare Unlimited
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The Dark Area That Fails Us
When you couldn't sleep as a little kid your father would play tapes of Olivier doing Shakespeare yeah yeah Olivier Gilgood I see listen to Gilgood's ages man over and over and over again. He was all consonants he's percussive he was like a snare drum whereas Gilgood was all vowels he was like an oboe so if you sort of mix them together I think it was pretty good pretty good education. You played both Dr. Jekyll and Frankenstein yes but I was always fascinated with I was fascinated with monsters I was fascinated with Count Dracula and I think it came from the King Arthur myths. There is this intuition that I have this inside of
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