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Continue This article is about Shakespeare's play. For the legendary figure, see Leir UK. For other purposes, see King (disambiguation). 's play and The in The Storm by William Dyce (1806-1864) King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It tells the story of a king who veils his power and land to two of his three daughters after they declare their love for him in a squispicing and obsequious manner. His third daughter gets nothing because she won't flatter him like her sisters did. When he feels that he is treated with disrespect by two daughters who now have their wealth and power, he becomes enraged to the point of madness. Eventually he becomes gently reconciled with his third daughter, just before the tragedy strikes her and then the king. Derived from the legend of Leyre UK, the mythological pre-Roman Celtic king, the play was widely adapted for stage and film, with the main role coveted by experienced actors. Shakespeare's first attribution of this play, originally composed in 1605 or 1606 not at least with his first known performance on St. Stephen's Day in 1606, was the publication of 1608 in a quart of uncertain origin, in which the play is listed as history; it could be an early draft or simply reflect the first text of the speech. The tragedy of King Lear, a revised version that is better adapted for execution, was included in the First Folio of 1623. Modern editors usually hang two, although some insist that each version has its own individual integrity that needs to be preserved. After the English restoration, the play was often revisited with a happy ending for the audience, who did not like its dark and depressing tone, but since the 19th century the original version of Shakespeare was considered one of his highest achievements. The tragedy is marked by its probing observations about the nature of human suffering and kinship. George Bernard Shaw wrote: No man will ever write a better tragedy than Lear. Characters Lear - King of Great Britain Earl of Kent - later disguised as Kaius Fool - fool Lear Edgar - the first son of Gloucester - illegitimate son of Gloucester - eldest daughter of Lyra - the second daughter of Lyra - Lear The younger daughter of the Duke of Albany - husband of The Duke of Cornwall - husband of the Duke of Cornwall - husband and then Cordelia's husband the Duke of Burgundy - the groom of Cordelia the Old Man - tenant Gloucester Kuran - court summary of The Act I Cordelia at the Court of King Lear (1873) Sir John Gilbert King Lear Britain, elderly and wanting to step down from the responsibilities of the monarchy, decides to divide his kingdom between three daughters, and declares that he will offer the largest to the one who loves him the most. The eldest, Goneril, speaks first, declaring her love for his father in fulsome conditions. Touched by her flattery, Lear continues to lend Her share to Goneril as soon as she has finished her statement, before Regan and Cordelia have a chance to speak. He then awards Regan his share as soon as she spoke. When, at last, at the turn of his youngest and beloved daughter, Cordelia, first she refuses to say anything (Nothing, Lord), and then declares that there is nothing to compare his love, there are no words to properly express it; she speaks honestly, but bluntly, that she loves it according to her connection, no more and no less, and will reserve half of her love for her future. Furious Lear separates Cordelia and divides his share between the older sisters. The Earl of Gloucester and the Earl of Kent note that by dividing their kingdom between Goneril and Regan, Lear awarded his kingdom equal shares to the peerage of the Duke of Albany (Goneril's husband) and the Duke of Cornwall (Regan's husband). Kent objects to Lear's unfair treatment of Cordelia; infuriated by Kent's protests, Lear drives him out of the country. Lear then summons the Duke of Burgundy and the King of France, who both proposed marriage to Cordelia. Upon learning that Cordelia had been stripped of her auditor, the Duke of Burgundy withdraws her claim, but the King of France is impressed with her honesty and marries her nonetheless. The King of France is shocked by Lear's decision, because until that time Lear had only praised and preferred Cordelia (... she had anyone even, but now was your best object, / Argument of your praise, balm of your age, ...). Meanwhile, Gloucester introduced his illegitimate son Edmund to Kent. King Lear: Farewell Cordelia Edwin Austin Abbey Lear announces that he will live alternately with Goneril and Regan and their husbands. He leaves himself a retinue of 100 knights, supported by his daughters. Goneril and Regan speak privately, revealing that their declarations of love were false and that they view Lear as a stupid old man. The bastard of Gloucester's son Edmund resents his illegal status and plans to get rid of his rightful older half-brother, Edgar. He deceives his father with a fake letter, making him think that Edgar plans to usurp the property. The Earl of Kent returns from exile in disguise (calling himself Kaius), and Lear hires him as a servant. In the house of Albany and Goeril Lear and Kent quarrel with Oswald, steward Goeril. Lear discovers that now that Googoril has power, she no longer respects him. She orders him to reduce the number of his promiscuous retinue. Furious Lear goes to regan's house. The fool reproaches Lear for his stupidity that he gives everything to Regan and Goneril, and predicts that Regan will treat him no better. Act II Edmund learns from Kuran, the courtier, that there is likely to be a war between Albany and Cornwall, and that Regan and Cornwall are due to arrive at Gloucester's house that evening. Taking advantage of the arrival of the Duke and Regan, Edmund faked Edgar's attack, and Gloucester fully accepted. He disavows Edgar and outlaws him. Wearing a message to Lear Regan, Kent meets Oswald again in the house of Gloucester, again quarrels with him and puts in stocks Regan and her husband Cornwall. When Lear arrives, he objects to the abuse of his messenger, but Regan is as dismissive of his father as Goneril. Lear is furious but powerless. Goneril comes and supports Regan's arguments against him. Lear is completely inferior to his fury. He runs out in a storm to rant against his ungrateful daughters, accompanied by a mocking fool. Kent later followed to protect him. Gloucester protests against Lear's abuse. When Lear's entourage of a hundred knights disintegrated, the only companions he left behind were his Fool and Kent. Wandering through the veer after the storm, Edgar, in the guise of a madman named Tom O'Bedlam, meets Lear. Edgar chats madly while Lear condemns his daughters. Kent takes them all to the shelter. Act III Watercolor of King Lear and Fool during the storm from Act III, Scene II, King Lear Edmund betrays Gloucester to Cornwall, Regan and Goneril. He reveals evidence that his father knows of the impending French invasion to restore Lear to the throne; and indeed, the French army landed in the UK. After Edmund leaves with Goneril to warn Albany of the invasion, Gloucester is arrested, and Regan and Cornwall poke out the eyes of Gloucester. As they do so, the servant is overcome with the fury that he is a witness and attacks Cornwall, fatally wounding him. Regan kills the servant and tells Gloucester that Edmund has betrayed him; Then she turns him to roam the heather, too. Act IV Edgar, in disguise his madman, meets his blinded father on the heather. Gloucester, with no vision and unable to recognize Edgar's voice, begs him to lead him to a rock in Dover so that he can move on to his death. Honoril discovers that she finds Edmund more attractive than her honest husband Albany, whom she considers cowardly. Albany has developed a conscience - he is outraged by the sisters' treatment of Lear and Gloucester and condemns his wife. Goneril sends Edmund back to Regan. After hearing of Cornwall's death, she fears that her recently widowed sister may steal Edmund and send him a letter through Oswald. Now alone with Lear Kent brings him to the French army, which commands Cordelia. But Lear is half-crazy and terribly embarrassed by his earlier stupidity. At the initiative of Regan, Albany joins its forces against the French. Gohniel's suspicions about Regan's motives are confirmed and returned as Regan guesses the meaning of her letter letter Oswald declares that it is a more appropriate match for Edmund. Edgar pretends to lead Gloucester to the rock, then changes his voice and tells Gloucester that he miraculously survived the great fall. Lear appears, by now completely crazy. He ranted that the whole world is corrupt and runs away. Oswald appears, still looking for Edmund. On Regan's orders, he tries to kill Gloucester, but is killed by Edgar. In Oswald's pocket, Edgar finds a letter from Goteril in which she urges Edmund to kill her husband and marry her. Kent and Cordelia take charge of the lyrah, whose madness quickly passes. Regan, Goneril, Albany and Edmund meet with their forces. Albany insists that they fight the French invaders, but do not harm Lira or Cordelia. Two sisters crave Edmund, who made promises to both. He considers the dilemma and plots the death of Albany, Lear and Cordelia. Edgar gives a letter to Goteril Albany. Armies meet in battle, the British defeat the French, and Lear and Cordelia are captured. Edmund sends Lear and Cordelia with secret orders from him (representing Regan and her forces) and Goneril (representing the forces of her estranged husband, Albany) to execute Cordelia. Act V Lear and Cordelia Ford Madox Brown beat British leaders to meet, and recently widowed Regan now announces that she will marry Edmund. But Albany exposes the intrigues of Edmund and Gonetrile and declares Edmund a traitor. Regan falls ill after being poisoned by Goneril, and is escorted backstage, where she dies. Edmund challenges Albany, who calls for trial in battle. Edgar appears in masks and armor and challenges Edmund in a duel. No one knows who he is. Edgar wounds Edmund fatally, although Edmund does not die immediately. Albany confronts Gonoyril with a letter that was to be his death sentence; she runs in shame and fury. Edgar opens up and reports that Gloucester died backstage of shock and joy after learning that Edgar was alive after Edgar revealed himself to his father. Behind the scenes, Gonoyril, her plans are thwarted, she committed suicide. Dying Edmund decides, though, that it is against his own character to try to save Lear and Cordelia, but his confession comes too late. Soon after, Albany sends people to resist Edmund's orders. Lear enters, carrying Cordelia's corpse in his arms, surviving, killing the executioner. Kent shows up, and Lear now recognizes him. Albany calls on Lear to renew his throne, but, as in the case of Gloucester, Lear's ordeal finally overwhelmed him and he died. Albany then asks Kent and Edgar to take charge of the throne. Kent refuses, explaining that his master is calling him on a journey, and he must follow. Finally, Albany (in the quarto version) or Edgar (in the folio version) implies that he will now become king. Sources First edition of Raphael England, Scotland and Ireland, printed in 1577. Shakespeare's play is based on various stories of the semi-reendar British figure Brighton, whose name was associated by some scholars with the god of Briton Lear/Llŷr, although in fact the names are not etymologically related. The most important source of Shakespeare is probably the second edition of the Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland, published in 1587. Holinshed himself found the story at the beginning of Jeffrey Monmouth's Regum Britanniae Story, which was written in the 12th century. Edmund Spencer's Fairy Kwin, published in 1590, also contains a character named Cordelia, who also dies of hanging, as in King Lear. Other possible sources are the anonymous plays of (published in 1605); Mirror Magistrates (1574), John Higgins; Malcontent (1604), John Marston; London Prodigal (1605); Essays by Montaigne, which were translated into English by John Florio in 1603; Historical description of England (1577), by William Harrison; Remaines Relatively Britaine (1606), William Camden; England Albion (1589), William Warner; and the Declaration of the Egregious Pop Impostors (1603) by Samuel Harsnett, which featured some of the language used by Edgar while he feigned madness. King Lear is also a literary version of a common folk tale, Love Like Salt, Aarne-Thompson type 923, in which a father rejects his youngest daughter for a declaration of her love that does not please him. The source of the sub-plot featuring Gloucester, Edgar and Edmund is a fairy tale in Philip Sidney's Arcadia (1580-1590) with a blind Paplagonian king and his two sons, Leonat and Plexitrus. Changes from the original materials In addition to the sub-plot involving the Earl of Gloucester and his sons, the main innovation of Shakespeare in this story was the death of Cordelia and Lear at the end; In the story of Jeffrey Monmouth, Cordelia restores Lear to the throne, and succeeds him as ruler after his death. In the 17th century, Shakespeare's tragic ending was heavily criticized, and Naum Tate wrote alternative versions in which the main characters survived, and Edgar and Cordelia married (despite the fact that Cordelia had previously been engaged to the King of France). As Harold Bloom argues: Tate's version held the stage for almost 150 years until Edmund Keane restored the tragic end of the play in 1823. The date and text of the title page of the first edition of the quart, published in 1608, There is no direct evidence to indicate when King Lear was written or first performed. It is believed that it was drawn up sometime between 1603 and 1606. A recording in the Stationers Register marks a performance before James I on December 26, 1606. The date of 1603 comes from the words of Edgar that may stem from the Declaration of the egregious pop impostors of Samuel Harsnett (1603). An important issue in the dating of the play is King Lear's attitude to a play called The True Chronicle of the Life and Death of King Leir and His Three Daughters, which was published for the first time since its entry into the Station Register on May 8, 1605. This play had a significant influence on Shakespeare, and his close study of it suggests that he used a printed copy that suggests the date of the composition 1605-06. On the other hand, Frank Kermode, of Riverside Shakespeare, believes that Leir's publication was a response to the performances of an already written Shakespeare play; After appearing to be William Strachey's sonnet, which may have verbal similarities to Lear, Kermode concludes that 1604-1605 seems to be the best compromise. The line in the play, which refers to These late eclipses in the sun and moon, seems to refer to the phenomenon of two eclipses that occurred over London within days of each other - the lunar eclipse on September 27, 1605 and the solar eclipse on October 12, 1605. This wonderful couple of events has caused a lot of discussion among astrologers. Edmund's line The prediction I read the other day... apparently refers to the published predictions of astrologers that followed the eclipses. This suggests that these lines in the Law I was written once after both eclipses and published comments. The first page of King Lear, printed in the Second Folio 1632Modern text of King Lear comes from three sources: two quartos, one of which was published in 1608 (No.1), and the other in 1619 (No2) and a version in the First Folio of 1623 (F1). The differences between these versions are significant. No1 contains 285 lines, not in F1; F1 contains about 100 lines, not in the first quarter. In addition, at least a thousand individual words are changed between the two texts, each text has different styles of punctuation, and about half of the verse lines in F1 are either printed as prose or differently divided into No.1. Early editors, starting with Alexander Pope, merged into two texts, creating a modern version that has been widely used since then. The conflated version arose with the assumptions that the differences in versions do not show any rewrite by the author; that Shakespeare had written only one original manuscript, which was being lost; and that the versions of Kvarto and Folio contain various distortions of this lost original. Other editors, such as Nuttall and Bloom, suggested that Shakespeare himself may have been involved in reworking passages in the play to accommodate performances and other textual requirements of the play. Back in 1931, Madeleine Doran suggested that the two texts had an independent history, and that these differences between them were critically interesting. This is however, it was not widely discussed until the late 1970s, when it was revived, mainly by Michael Warren and Gary Taylor, who discussed various theories, including Doran's idea that Kwarto may have been printed out of Shakespeare's foul works, and that Folio may have been printed from a quick book prepared for production. The New Cambridge Shakespeare has published separate editions of Kew and F; The most recent edition of Shakespeare's Pelican contains both the 1608 quarto and the 1623 Folio text, as well as the conflated version; The new edition of Arden, edited by R.A. Foakes, offers a conflated text that points to those passages that are only in the Yu or F. Anthony Nuttall of the University of Oxford and Harold Bloom of Yale University supported Shakespeare's opinion, at least once in his lifetime revisiting the tragedy. As Bloom shows: At the end of Shakespeare's revised king Lear, Edgar reluctantly becomes king of Britain, accepting his destiny, but in the accents of despair. Nuttall suggests that Edgar, like Shakespeare himself, usurps the power of manipulating the audience by deceiving the poor Gloucester. The analysis and critique of King Lear's analysis and criticism over the centuries have been extensive. What we know about Shakespeare's broad reading and the powers of assimilation seems to show that he used all kinds of material, absorbing contradictory points of view, positive and negative, religious and secular, as if to ensure that King Lear did not offer a single control point of view, but was open to, indeed, several interpretations. R. A. Foakes's historical interpretation of John F. Danby in his Shakespearean Doctrine of Nature , The Study of King Lear (1949) argues that Lear dramatizes, among other things, the current meanings of Nature. The words nature, natural and unnatural occur more than forty times in the play, reflecting the debate in Shakespeare's time about what nature really is like; this discussion permeates the play and finds symbolic expression in Lear's changing attitude to the Thunder. There are two strongly contrasting views on human nature in the play: that of Lear's party (Lear, Gloucester, Albany, Kent), the defining philosophy of Bacon and Hooker, and that of Edmund (Edmund, Cornwall, Goneril, Regan), akin to the views later articulated by Hobbs, though the latter had not yet begun his philosophy when Lear was first executed. Along with two kinds of nature, the play contains two views of reason, brought to Gloucester and Edmund's speech on astrology (1,2). The rationality of Edmund's party is one with which the modern audience more easily identifies. But Edmund's party carries bold rationalism to such extremes that it becomes madness: madness in reason, the ironic analog of Lear's mind in madness (IV.6.190) and the wisdom of a fool in stupidity. Betrayal of the mind underlies the play's later emphasis on feeling. Two natures and two reasons imply two societies. Edmund is a New Man, a member of an era of competition, suspicion, fame, unlike the old society that came from the Middle Ages, with his belief in cooperation, reasonable decency, and respect for the whole as more than a part. King Lear is thus an allegory. Older society, a medieval vision, with its king doting, falls into error, and is threatened by a new Machiavellianism; it is regenerated and preserved by a vision of a new order embodied in the king's rejected daughter. Cordelia, in an allegorical scheme, three times: man; Ethical principle (love); and the community. However, Shakespeare's understanding of the New Man is so vast that it is almost sympathetic. Edmund is the last great expression in Shakespeare of this side of Renaissance individualism - energy, emancipation, courage, which made a positive contribution to the heritage of the West. It embodies something vital that the final synthesis must confirm. But he makes an absolute statement that Shakespeare will not support. It is right for a person to feel like Edmund is doing that society exists for the person, not the man for the community. It is wrong to say that the man Edmund would have elevated to this superiority. The play offers an alternative to feudal Machiavelli polarity, an alternative omen in the speech of France (I.1.245-256), in the prayers of Lear and Gloucester (III.4. 28-36; IV.1.61-66), and in the figure of Cordelia. Until a decent society is achieved, we must take as a role model (albeit a qualified Shakespearean irony) Edgar, machiavellian goodness, endurance, courage and maturity. King Lear Gustav Pope's three daughters also refer to disputes between King Akov I and Parliament. In the elections to the House of Commons in 1604, Sir John Fortescue, Chancellor of the Exchequer, was defeated by a member of the Buckinghamshire nobility, Sir Francis Goodwin. Dissatisfied with the result, James declared the buckingham election results invalid and swore in Fortescue as MP for Buckinghamshire, while the House of Commons insisted on swearing at Goodwin, leading to a clash between King and Parliament over who had the right to decide who was sitting in the House of Commons. MP Thomas Wentworth, the son of another MP, Peter Wentworth, often jailed under Elizabeth for raising the issue of succession in the Commons, was most forceful in protesting James' attempts to reduce the powers of the House of Commons, saying the king could not simply invalidate the election results if he did not like who won the seat as he insisted he could. Kent's character resembles Peter Wentworth in that is tactless and blunt in advising Lear, but his point is valid that Lear should be more careful with his friends and counselors. Just as the House of Commons claimed to James that their loyalty was to the Constitution of England and not to the king personally, Kent insists that his loyalty is institutional rather than personal, as he is loyal to a kingdom whose head is the king, not the liar, and he tells Lear to behave better for the good of the kingdom. Lear, on the other hand, makes an argument similar to Jacob's that, as king, he has absolute power and can ignore the views of his subjects if he does not like them when he likes them. In the play, characters such as Fool, Kent and Cordelia, whose loyalty is institutionally seeing their first loyalty to the kingdom, are portrayed more favourably than the such as Regan and Goneril, who insist that they are loyal only to the king, seeing their loyalty as personal. In addition, James was known for his exuberant, depraved lifestyle and his preference for sycophantic courtiers, who forever sang his praises out of hope for advancement, aspects of his trial that very much resemble the trial of King Lear, which begins in a game with the exuberant, depraved trial of sycophantic courtiers. Kent criticizes Oswald as a man of unworthy position who was promoted only because of his sycophancy, telling Lear that he should be loyal to those who are willing to tell him the truth, a statement that many in England wanted James to be given attention to. In addition, James VI of Scotland inherited the throne of England after the death of Elizabeth I in 1603, thus uniting the kingdoms of the island of Britain as a whole, and the main problem of his rule was the attempt to create a common British identity. James gave his sons Henry and Charles the titles of Duke of Cornwall and Duke of Albany, the same titles worn by men married to Regan and Gonayril. The play begins with Lear ruling the whole of Britain and ending with him destroying his kingdom; Critic Andrew Hadfield argued that Lear's division of Britain was an inversion of Britain's unification by James, who believed his policies would lead to a well-managed and prosperous single sphere being handed over to his heir. Hadfield argued that the play was intended as a warning to James, as in the play the monarch loses everything, succumbing to his sycophantic courtiers who only seek to use it, neglecting those who really loved him. Hadfield also argued that Lear's court world is childish with Lear, absent himself as the father of the nation and demanding that all of his subjects, not just his children, refer to him in paternal terms, which infantises most of the people around him, which sharply refers to James's statement in his 1598 book The Freedom Of Monarchs Act that the king is the father of the father. for which all his subjects are his children. King Lear's psychoanalytic and psychosocial interpretations are the basis for primary acceptance of mental breakdown in English literary history. The play begins with Lear's almost fabulous narcissism. Given the absence of legal mothers in King Lear, Coppelia Kahn provides a psychoanalytic interpretation of the maternal subtext found in the play. According to Kahn, Lear's old age forces him to regress into an infantile temper, and now he is looking for love, which is traditionally satisfied with the mother of a woman, but in the absence of a real mother, his daughters become the mother of the figure. The Lira Love Contest between Goneril, Regan and Cordelia is a binding agreement; his daughters will inherit on the condition that they take care of him, especially Cordelia, on whom the good nursery he will depend heavily. Cordelia's refusal to devote himself to him and to love him as not just a father was interpreted by some as resisting incest, but Kahn also inserts an image of the rejection mother. The situation is being reversed by parent and child roles in which Lear's madness is childishly furious because of his deprivation of family/maternity care. Even when Lear and Cordelia are captured together, his madness persists as Lear imagines a nursery in prison where Cordelia's only existence is for him. It is only with Cordelia's death that his fantasy of a daughter-mother eventually diminishes as King Lear concludes only male characters live. Lear and Cordelia in prison - William Blake circa 1779 Sigmund Freud claimed that Cordelia symbolizes death. Therefore, when the play begins with Lear rejecting his daughter, it can be interpreted as a rejection of death; Lear does not want to face the longitude of his being. The poignant ending of the play, in which Lear carries the body of his beloved Cordelia, is of great importance to Freud. In this scene, Cordelia forces him to realize his finiteuda, or, as Freud put it, it makes him make friends with the need for death. Shakespeare had special intentions with Cordelia's death, and was the only writer who killed Cordelia (in Naum Tate's version, she continues to live happily, and in Holinshed's, she restores her father and succeeds him). In addition, an analysis based on Adler's theory shows that the royal competition among his daughters in the Law I have more to do with his control over the unmarried Cordelia. This theory indicates that the king's deronement could have led him to seek control, which he lost after he divided his land. In his study of Edmund's character-image, Harold Bloom calls him Shakespeare's most original character. As Hazlitt noted, Bloom writes, Edmund does not share the hypocrisy of Goneril and Regan: his absolutely clean, and lacks oedipal motif. Freud's vision of family romance simply does not apply to Edmund. Iago is free to reinvent himself every minute, but Iago has strong passions, no matter how negative they may be. Edmund has no passions what it is; he never loved anyone, and he never will. In this respect, he is Shakespeare's most original character. The tragedy of Lyre's misunderstanding of the consequences of his demands and actions often turns out to be similar to that of a spoiled child, but it has also been noted that his behavior can equally be seen in parents who have never adapted to their children who have grown up. Christianity 1793 painting by King Lear and Cordelia Benjamin West. Critics disagree on whether King Lear is a contention of a Christian doctrine. Those who think this really puts different arguments that include the value of Lear's self-insession. For some critics, this reflects Christian perceptions of the fall of the mighty and inevitable loss of worldly property. By 1569 sermons delivered at court, such as in Windsor declared, as rich people are rich in dust, sages wise dust ... From him, that weareth purple, and carry the crown up to him that dressed with mean clothes, there is nothing but garbuy, and ruffles, and lifting, and lingering anger, and the fear of death and death itself, and hunger, and many whips of God . Some see it in Cordelia and what it symbolized is that the material body is just a husk that will eventually be discarded so that the fetus can be reached. Among those who claim that Lear is redeemed in the Christian sense through suffering, A.K. Bradley and John Reibetz, who wrote, Through his suffering, Lear has conquered an enlightened soul. Other critics who find no evidence of redemption and highlight the horrors of the final act include John Holloway and Marvin Rosenberg. (page necessary) William R. Elton emphasizes the pre-Christian staging of the play, writing that Lear fulfills the criteria of pagan behavior in life, falling into complete blasphemy at the moment of his irreparable loss. This is due to the way some sources cite the fact that at the end of the story King Lear raged in heaven before eventually dying in despair of Cordelia's death. The history of The King Lear performance has been performed by respected actors since the 17th century, when men played all the roles. Since the 20th century, a number of women have played male roles in the play; most often a fool who was played (among others) judy Davis, Emma Thompson and Robin Nevin. Lear herself was played by Marianne Hoppe in 1990, Janet Wright in 1995, Katherine Hunter in 1996-1997 and Glenda Jackson in 2016 and 2019. 17th-century Tate cover The story of King Lear Shakespeare wrote the role of Lear for the main tragic of his company, Richard Berbagh, for whom Shakespeare wrote gradually older characters as their careers progressed. It was assumed either that the role of The Fool was written for the clown company of Robert Armin, or that it was written for performance by one of the company's boys, doubling the role of Cordelia. Only one particular play in Shakespeare's lifetime is known: at the court of King Akov I in Whitehall on 26 December 1606. His original performances would have been at The Globe, where there were no scenery in the modern sense, and the characters would have meant their roles visually with props and costumes: Lear's costume, for example, would have changed during the play as its status diminished: from crown and regalia; He's like a hunter. raging headless in the scene of the storm; and finally crowned with flowers in a parody of its original status. All theatres were closed by the Puritan government on September 6, 1642. After the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, two patent companies (the Royal Company and the Duke's Company) were established, and the existing theatrical repertoire was divided between them. And from the restoration to the mid-19th century, the story of King Lear's performance is not the story of Shakespeare's version, but instead of the story of King Lear, a popular adaptation of Naum Tate. His most significant deviations from Shakespeare were to completely omit the fool, introduce a happy ending in which Lear and Cordelia survive, and develop a love story between Cordelia and Edgar (two characters who never interact in Shakespeare) that ends their marriage. Like most of Shakespeare's Restoration adapters, Tate admired Shakespeare's natural genius, but found it necessary to complement his work with modern standards of art (which were largely guided by neoclassical units of time, place and action). Tate's struggle for a balance between raw nature and exquisite art is evident in his description of the tragedy: a bunch of jewels, unstretched and unpeeled; still so dazzling in their mess that I soon perceiv'd I seiz'd treasure . Other changes included giving Cordelia a confidant named Arante, bringing the play closer to contemporary notions of poetic justice, and adding exciting material such as love encounters between Edmund and Regan and Goneril, a scene in which Edgar saved Cordelia from Edmund's attempted abduction and rape, and a scene in which Cordelia wears men's pants. The play ends with a celebration of the king's most blest Restauration, an apparent reference to Charles II. others) Restoring Shakespeare's adaptation. For example, in the Observer on April 16, 1711, Joseph Addison wrote: King Lear is a remarkable tragedy... as Shakespeare wrote; but as it is reformed according to the chymerical notion of poetic justice in my humble opinion he hath lost half of his beauty. However, on stage, Tate's version prevailed. David Garrick was the first actor-manager to begin cutting back on elements of the Tate's adaptation in favour of Shakespeare's original: he retained the Tate's major changes, including a happy ending, but deleted many of Tate's lines, including Edgar's closing speech. He also reduced the fame of Edgar-Cordelia's love story to focus more on the relationship between Lear and his daughters. His version had a powerful emotional impact: Lear, driven to madness by his daughters, was (in the words of one viewer, Arthur Murphy) the best tragic disaster ever seen on any stage, and, on the contrary, the devotion shown by Cordelia Lear (a mixture of contribution of Shakespeare, Tate and Garrick to this role) brought the audience to tears. King Lear's first professional performances in North America were probably performances by the Hallam Company (later the American Company), which arrived in Virginia in 1752 and which considered the play among its repertoire by the time they left for Jamaica in 1774. King Lear of the 19th century mourns the death of Cordelia, James Barry, 1786-1788 Charles Lamb established the attitude of romantics to King Lear in his 1811 essay On the Tragedies of Shakespeare, considered referring to their suitability for a stage performance, where he says that the play is essentially impossible to be represented on stage, preferring to experience it in the study. In the theater, he claims to see Lear acted to see an old man reeling about the scene with a cane, turned out of his daughters' door on a rainy night, has nothing in it, but what is painful and disgusting yet while we read it, we see not Lear, but we Lear - we are in his mind, we are resistant to greatness, which is confusing. , and as a result was not performed at all in two professional theatres in London from 1811 to 1820: but was then the subject of major productions in both, for three months after his death. In the 19th century there was a gradual revival of Shakespeare's text to supplant the Tate's version. Like Garrick before him, John Philip Kemble introduced more of Shakespeare's text, while retaining three main elements of the Tate's version: a love story, a fool's omission and a happy ending. Edmund Keane played King Lear with his tragic ending in 1823, but failed and returned to the crowd-pleaser Tate after just three Finally, in 1838, William Macready performed a Shakespearean version in Covent Garden, exempt from the Tate adaptation. The restored character of the Fool was played by actress Priscilla Horton as, in the words of one viewer, a fragile, restless, handsome, semi-idiotic boy. And Helen Faucith's latest appearance as Cordelia, dead in her father's arms, was one of the most iconic Victorian images. John Forster, writing in the Examiner on February 14, 1838, expressed the hope that Mr. Macready's success forever drove this shameful version of the Tate off the stage. But even this version was not close to Shakespearean: 19th-century actors-managers heavily carved out Shakespearean scripts: finishing scenes with big curtain effects and reducing or eliminating supporting roles to give the star more attention. One of Macready's innovations - the use of Stonehenge-like structures on stage to show the ancient setting - proved solid on stage in the 20th century, and can be seen in the 1983 television version starring Laurence Olivier. In 1843, the Theatre Regulatory Act came into force, ending the monopolies of the two existing companies and thereby increasing the number of theatres in London. At the same time, fashion in the theater was painting: the evaluation of the visual spectacle above the plot or characteristics and often required long (and time-consuming) changes of the scene. For example, King Lear Henry Irving of 1892 offered glasses such as Lear's death under a rock at Dover, his face illuminated by the red glow of the setting sun; by reducing 46% of the text, including gloucester's blinding. But Irving's production clearly evoked strong emotions: one of the audience, Gordon Cross, wrote of Lear's first entry, a striking figure with masses of white hair. He leans on a huge lousy sword, which he raises with a wild cry in response to the shouted greeting of his guards. His gait, his appearance, his gestures, all show a noble, imperious mind, already degenerate into senile irritability under the grampence of grief and age. The importance of painting for Irving and other Victorian theater professionals is borne out by the fact that Irving used Ford Madox Brown's Part of Cordelia as inspiration for a look at his production, and that the artist himself was brought in to provide sketches to customize other scenes. The reaction against pictorialism followed with the rise of the reconstructive movement, believing in a simple style of staging, more similar to the one that would apply to Renaissance theaters, whose main early representative was actor-manager William Paul. Poel was influenced by King Lear's performance, led by Jokza Savitz at Hoftteater in Munich in 1890, mounted on an apron with a three-tiered globe as a reconstruction of the theater as a backdrop. Paul used the same configuration for his Shakespearean performances in 1893. 20th century Cordelia Part Ford Madox Brown By mid-century, the actor-manager tradition refused to be replaced by a structure where large theater companies worked professional directors as authors. The last of the great actor-managers, Donald Wolfitt, played Lear in 1944 at Stonehenge as a set and was praised by James Agatha as the greatest piece of Shakespearean acting since I had the privilege of writing for the Sunday Times. (e) Wolfite allegedly drank eight bottles of Guinness during each performance. Lear's character in the 19th century was often the character of a fragile old man from the first scene, but 20th-century Lears often began the play as strong men, featuring regal authorities including John Gielgud, Donald Wolfit and Donald Sinden. Cordelia also developed in the 20th century: Cordelia was often praised for being sweet, innocent and modest, but 20th-century Cordelia was often portrayed as a military leader. For example, Peggy Ashcroft, in RST in 1950, played a role in the breastplate and holding the sword. Similarly, The Fool evolved over a century, with images often derived from a music hall or circus tradition. In Stratford-upon-Avon in 1962, Peter Brook (who later directed a play with the same actor Paul Scofield as Lear) set the action simply, against a huge, empty white scene. The effect of the scene, when Lear and Gloucester meet, two tiny figures in rags in the midst of this void, was told (scientist Roger Warren) to catch as human pathos ... and universal scale ... Scene. Some of the lines from the radio show were used by The Beatles to add I Am the Walrus to the recorded mix. John Lennon accidentally appeared on the BBC's third programme while playing the radio while working on the song. The voices of actors Mark Dignam, Philip Guarde and John Brining from the play sound in the song. Like other Shakespearean tragedies, King Lear turned out to be a substrate for conversion into other theatrical traditions. In 1989, David Makroui and Iyamkode Sreedaran adapted the play and then translated it to Malayalam, for a performance in Kerala in the Tradition of Kathakali, which itself formed around 1600, modern with Shakespeare's writing. Later the show went on tour, and in 2000 played at Shakespeare's Globe, completing, in the words of Anthony Dawson, a kind of symbolic circle. Perhaps even more radical was the 1997 film adaptation of Ong Keng Sen's 1997 King Lear, in which six actors performed in a separate Asian acting tradition and in their own separate languages. The key moment occurred when The Jingju performer playing the eldest daughter (a fusion of Goneril and Regan) hit No-singer Lear whose fall pine deadfall, straight-forward onstage, surprised the audience in what Yong Lee Lan describes as a triumph through the moving power of a noh performance at the very moment of his character's defeat. In 1974, Buzz Goodbody directed Lear, a deliberately abbreviated title of Shakespeare's text, as the first production of RSC's Another Place. The play was conceived as a chamber play, a small intimate space and proximity to the viewer allowed to act in detail psychologically, which was performed with simple scenery and in a modern dress. Peter Holland suggested that the company/director's decision, namely the choice to represent Shakespeare in a small place for artistic reasons when a larger venue was available, may have been unprecedented at the time. Brook's previous vision of the play proved influential, and the directors went further, presenting Lear as (in the words of R.A. Foaks) a pathetic pensioner found himself in a violent and hostile environment. When John Wood took over the role in 1990, he played later scenes in a garment that looked like discards, inviting deliberate parallels with the uncared-for in modern Western societies. Indeed, contemporary productions of Shakespeare's plays often reflect the world in which they are performed in the same way as the world for which they were written: and the Moscow theatre scene in 1994 provided an example when two completely different productions of the play (those that were in Sergei Jonovach and Alexei Borodin), strongly casting each other in style and outlook, were a reflection of the collapse of the Soviet Union. In 2002 and 2010, the Hudson Shakespeare Company of New Jersey staged separate productions as part of its Shakespearean seasons. The 2002 version was directed by Michael Collins and rescheduled the action in the West Indies, marine setting. The actors were shown in outfits indicating the appearance of various Caribbean islands. In 2010, director John Ciccarelli's production was fashioned after the dark knight's film atmosphere with a palette of red and black and set the action in urban settings. Lear (Tom Cox) has emerged as the head of a multinational conglomerate that has divided his fortune among his daughter socialite Goneril (Brenda Scott), his high-court middle daughter Regan (Noelle Fair) and the university daughter of Cordelia (Emily Best). In 2012, acclaimed Canadian director Peter Hinton directed a production of King Lear at the National Arts Center in Ottawa, Ontario, with a setting that changed to the 17th century Algonquin Nation. Starring: August Schellenberg starring Lear, Billy Merasti starring Gloucester, Tantu Cardinal starring Regan, Kevin as Edmund, Jani Lozon as Cordelia and The Fool, and Craig Lawson as Kent. This setting was later reproduced as part of a series of graphic novels by Manga Shakespeare, published by Self-Made Hero, adapted by Richard Appignanesi and illustrated by Ilya. In 2015, the Toronto Theatre Passe Muraille staged a production staged in Upper Canada against the backdrop of the 1837 Upper Canada Uprising. In this production, David Fox played Lear. In the summer of 2015-2016, the Sydney Theatre Company directed King Lear with Neil Armfield in the title role and Robin Nevin as the Fool. On the madness at the heart of the play, Rush said it was about finding dramatic impact in moments of his mania. What seems to be working best is to find a vulnerability or point of empathy where the audience can look at Lear and think how shocking it must be that old and be driven out of your family outdoors in a storm. This is the level of impoverishment you would never want to see in any other person, ever. In 2016, the Talawa Theatre Company and the Royal Manchester Exchange co-produced a production of King Lear starring Dok Warrington. The production, which features mostly black actors, was described in The Guardian as as close as possible to the final. The Daily Telegraph wrote: King Lear don Warrington is a heartbreaking tour de force. King Lear was staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, starring Anthony Sher. The play was directed by Gregory Doran and was described as having strength and depth. In 2017, Guthrie Theatre produced a production of King Lear starring Stephen Ioakam. Armin Schimerman appeared to be a fool, portraying him with unusual gloom, but he works in a production that was hailed as a destructive part of the theatre, and a production that makes it justice. Lear was played on Broadway by Christopher Plummer in 2004 and Glenda Jackson in 2019, while Jackson starred in the 2016 production of The Old Vic in London. The film adaptation and video of King Lear's first film was a five-minute German version made circa 1905, which did not survive. The oldest preserved version is a ten-minute studio version of 1909 from Vitagraph, which, according to Luke McKernan, made the ill-conceived decision to try to cram as much of the plot as possible. Two silent versions, both called Re Lear, were made in Italy in 1910. Of these, director Gerolamo's version of Lo Savio was filmed on the spot, and he dropped Edgar's plot and used frequent intertitling to make the plot easier to follow than his predecessor Vitagraph. The modern setting was used for the French adaptation of Louis Faithfullada's 1911 Le Roi Lear Au Village, and in 1914 in America, Ward expanded the story to an hour, including points such as the final battle scene. Joseph Mankiewicz's House of Strangers (1949) is often considered an adaptation of Lear, but the parallels are more striking in Broken Lance (1954), in which the cattle baron, played by Spencer Tracy, tyrannizes his three sons, and only the youngest, Joe, played by Robert Wagner, remains faithful. On October 18, 1953, omnibus anthology (1952-1961) staged a 73-minute version of King Lear. It was adapted by Peter Brook and starred orson Velez in his American television debut. Two screen versions of King Lear date back to the early 1970s: Gregory Kozintsev's King Lear and Peter Brook's King Lear, starring Paul Scofield. Brooke's film sharply divided critics: Pauline Cale said, I didn't just dislike this production, I hated it! and offered an alternative title, Night of the Living Dead. However, Robert Hatch in The Nation considered it a great piece of play, as you'd expect, and Vincent Cubby in The New York Times called it a sublime Lear full of exquisite terror. The film relied on the ideas of Ian Cotta, in particular, on his remark that King Lear was a precursor to absurdist theater, and that he had parallels with Beckett's endgame. Critics who dislike the film have been paying particular attention to its bleak nature since its opening: complaining that the play's world is not deteriorating with Lear's suffering, but begins dark, colorless and wintry, leaving, in the words of Douglas Broad, Lear, earth, and we have nowhere to go. The film permeates the cruelty, which does not distinguish between the violence of supposedly good and evil characters, representing both brutally. Paul Scofield, as Lear, avoids sentimentality: this demanding old man with a group of recalcitrant knights evokes sympathy for the audience in the early scenes, and his performance clearly rejects the tradition of playing Lear as a poor old white-haired patriarch. King Lear was praised by critics of Alexander Anikst for his serious, deeply thoughtful even philosophical approach to director Grigory Kozintsev and writer Boris Pasternak. Making a thinly veiled critique of Brooke in the process, Anikst praised the fact that there had been no attempt at sensationalism, no effort to modernize Shakespeare by introducing Freudian themes, existentialist ideas, eroticism or sexual perversion. (Kozintsev) ... just made a film about Shakespeare's tragedy. Dmitri Shostakovich presented an epic score, her motives, including the (increasingly ironic) trumpet fanfare for Lear and the five-bar Call to Death dedicated to the demise of each character. Kozintsev described his vision of the film as an ensemble: with Lear, played by the dynamic Yari Yarvet, as the first among equals in the cast of fully developed The film highlights Lear's role as king, including his people throughout the film on a scale that no stage production could emulate, charting the central character's decline from their god to their helpless equal; his final descent into madness marked his realization that he had neglected the poor naked wretched. As the film progresses, the ruthless characters - Goneril, Regan, Edmund - increasingly appear isolated in frames, as opposed to the director's focus, throughout the film, on the masses of people. Jonathan Miller twice directed Michael Hordern in the title role for English television, the first for BBC Play of the Month in 1975 and the second for BBC Television Shakespeare in 1982. Hordern received mixed reviews, and was considered a bold choice because of his history of taking much lighter roles. Also for English television, Laurence Olivier played a role in a 1983 television production for Granada Television. It was his last appearance on screen in a Shakespearean role. In 1985, the main film adaptation of the play appeared: Ran, directed by Akira Kurosawa. While the most expensive Japanese film ever made, it tells the story of Hidetora, a fictional 16th-century Japanese warlord whose attempt to divide his kingdom between three sons leads to estrangement from the younger, and ultimately the most loyal, of them, and eventually to civil war. Unlike the cold gray colors of Brook and Kozintsev, Kurosawa's film is full of bright colors: exterior scenes in yellow, blues and greenery, interiors in brown and amber tones and Oscar-winning colored costumes by Amy Wade for the soldiers of each family member. Hidetor has a back story: a brutal and ruthless rise to power, and the film depicts contrasting victims: the virtuous characters Sue and Tsurumaru who are capable of forgiveness, and the vengeful Kade (Mieko Harada), Hidetor's daughter-in-law and villain, similar to Lady . A screenshot from the trailer for House of Strangers (1949) There are two preceding references to Joseph and his brothers and King Lear. The scene, in which the character is threatened to dazzle in the manner of Gloucester, is the culmination of a parody theater of blood horrors 1973. The comic is made of Sir's inability to physically carry any actress cast as Cordelia opposite his Lear in the 1983 film . In 1990, John Boorman's Where's the Heart shows a father who is deprived of his three spoiled children. Francis Ford Coppola deliberately included elements of Lear in his 1990 sequel The Godfather Part III, including Michael Corleone's attempt to escape from criminal life by throwing his domain into anarchy, and apparently the death of his daughter in his arms. Parallels were also made between the character of Andy Garcia Vincent and Edgar and Edmund, between Talia Shire's character Connie and Cade in Ran. In 1997, Jocelyn Moorhouse directed Thousand Acres, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Jane Smiley, which was established in the 1990s in Iowa. The film is described by the scientist Tony Howard as the first adaptation to counter the disturbing sexual dimensions of the play. The story is told from the perspective of the eldest two daughters, Jeannie, played by Jessica Lange and Rose, played by Michelle Pfeiffer, who were sexually abused by their father as a teenager. Their younger sister Caroline, played by Jennifer Jason Leigh, escaped this fate and, ultimately, the only one who remains faithful. The play was adapted to the world of gangsters in Don Boyd's 2001 film My Kingdom, which differs from everyone else in that it began with Lear's character, Sandeman, played by Richard Harris, in an amorous relationship with his wife. But her violent death marks the beginning of an increasingly bleak and brutal chain of events (influenced by documentary co-author Nick Davis's documentary Dark Heart), which, despite the director's denial that the film had serious parallels to Shakespeare's play, actually mirrors aspects of its plot closely. Unlike Shakespeare's Lear, but like Hidetor and Sandeman, the central character of Uli Edel's 2002 American television adaptation of The , John Lear, played by Patrick Stewart, has a behind-the-scenes story focused on his violent rise to power as the richest landowner (metaphorically King) in the independent Texas of General Sam Houston in the early 1840s. , because commissioned by cable channel TNT, include a darker and more violent ending than would be possible in national networks. Channel 4-commissioned two-part second generation series set history in the world of Asian production and music in England. The 2006 Chinese film The Curse of the Golden Flower is based on the film King Lear, but the plot takes place in China's Tang Dynasty instead of medieval Europe. In 2008, the premiere of King Lear, produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company with Ian McKellen as King Lear. In the 2012 romantic comedy If I Were You, there's a reference to the play, when the main characters are cast in the female version of King Lear, set in modern times, with Marcia Gay Harden cast as Lear and Lenor Watling as a fool. Lear is an executive director in a corporate empire, not literally one, being gradually on her position. Off-beat play (and its cast) is one of the main elements of the film's plot. Carl Bessai wrote and directed a modern adaptation of King Lear called Lears. The 2017 film stars Bruce Dern, Anthony Michael Hall and Sean Astin. Bbc Two broadcast on 28 May 2018 Lyra starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson as Gonoril. Director Richard Richard The performance featured a 21st century setting. Hopkins, aged 80, was deemed ideal for the role and home with Leather Lear critic Sam Wollaston. Radio and Audio Argo Shakespeare's first recording for Argo Records was King Lear in 1957, directed and produced by George Rylands with William Devlin in the title role, Jill Balcon as Gohneril and Prunella Ves as Cordelia. In 1965, the Shakespeare Recording Society recorded full-length uncircumdable audio production on LP in 1965 (SRS-M-232) directed by Howard Sackler, with Paul Scofield as Lear, Cyril Cusack as Gloucester. Robert Stevens as Edmund, Rachel Roberts, Pamela Brown and John Stride. King Lear was shown live on BBC Third Programme on 29 September 1967, starring John Gielgud, Barbara Jefford, Barbara Bolton and Virginia McKenna as Lear and his daughters. At Abbey Road Studios, John Lennon used a radio microphone to re-tap fragments of the play (Act IV, Scene 6) to the song I Am the Walrus, which The Beatles recorded that evening. Recorded voices were those of Mark Dignam (Gloucester), Philip Guard (Edgar) and John Brining (Oswald). On April 10, 1994, Kenneth Branagh's Renaissance Theatre Company performed a radio adaptation directed by Glyn Dearman starring Gielgud, as Lear, with Keith Michelle as Kent, Richard Briers as Gloucester, Dame Judi Dench as Goneril, Emma Thompson as Cordelia, Eileen Atkins as Regan, Kenneth Branagh as Edmund, John Shrapnel as Albany, Robert, Ian Glen as Edgar and Michael Williams as a Fool. The opera opera by German composer Aribert Reiman Lear premiered on July 9, 1978. The premiere of the opera by Japanese composer Toshio Hosokawa took place on April 18, 1998 at the Munich Biennale. Finnish composer Aulis Sullinen's opera Kuningas Lear premiered on September 15, 2000. On March 27, 2018, Tessa Gratton published a highly acclaimed adaptation of King Lear's fantasy titled The queen Innis Lear with Tor Books. Cm. also The Illegitimacy in Fiction Nothing comes from anything Shakespearean Fool Fool (novel) Cap-O'-Rushes Goose-Girl on Well Dirty Shepherd Yiddish King Lear Notes and References Notes - 1619 quarto is part of William Jaggard's so-called false folio. Gene E. Marsden quotes the Tate Lear line 5.6.119. A quote from Gene E. Marsden. Gene E. Marsden quotes Gray's Inn Journal of January 12, 1754. Stanley Wells quote. According to Ronald Harwood, quoted by Stanley Wells. This version appears on a video compilation by the British Film Institute Silent Shakespeare (1999). The original title of this film in Cyrillic is the title, and sources anglicise it with different spelling. Daniel Rosenthal gives it as King Lear, while Douglas Broad gives it to Carol Lear. Pauline Cale's review of The New Yorker quotes Douglas Broad. Both quoted Douglas Broad. A quote from Douglas Brode. 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