Act 1 Scene 1 | King Lear | 2017 | Royal Shakespeare Company

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The company of King Lear perform part of Act 1 Scene 1 with Antony Sher as King Lear, Natalie Simpson as Cordelia, Kelly Williams as Regan and Nia Gwynne as Goneril in Gregory Doran's 2016 production of King Lear with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

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@RJStockton 3 жыл бұрын

I sometimes wonder if the British people have even a shred of self-respect left. Then a production like this one happens along and answers my question. The answer is an emphatic no, followed by an exclamation point so loud they can hear it in space.

@1955annemarie 3 жыл бұрын

Nothing, absolutely nothing, beats "Theatre." "Threatre is able to reach the soul and to touch the spirit and to mold the heart in ways that are forever lasting in its effects. The richness of "Theatre" has sadly been largely lost and forgotten in the shadow of endless TV channels, Music Videos, the internet, Social Media, and the endless rhetoric of our present society's, "Much Ado About Nothing." We are all, sadly, living in a sorry state of affairs...

@hopelessstrlstfan181 3 жыл бұрын

Whoa. Such artistry in verse. In a goofy way, I can identify with the 3rd daughter in as much as I admit I lack the facility with language to express properly my appreciation for Shakespeare's gift for writing verse. My 2 cents for all those who fancy the argument in favor of Shakespeare's plays having been written by a multiplicity of authors--> I humbly submit that the arguments in favor of that position collapse under their own weight in that they are predicated on the sheer brilliance of Shakespeare's works and the fact that by definition genius is always singular in nature. What I mean by genius being singular in nature might be clarified by the following thought experiment. Imagine a very difficult graduate level Physics exame that would require an IQ of 160 in order for a student to answer accurately all problems and receive a grade of 100%. No team of students (no matter how many in number) comprised of non-genius albeit relatively intelligent Physics students w IQ's in 120's could solve the entirety of exam's set of problems. These teams would certainly do better than the average person. Presumably, the team as a whole could do better than many or most of the individuals would have done had they taken the exam on their own. However, there remains a plateau beyond which no member of that team and the collection of these individuals can reach because none of them have the necessary talent to solve the problems in their entirety. This analogy does have some basis in the real world. I am not a genius (as you may have guessed), but I did major in Physics at an Ivy League school and was put into an honor's physics course. This was a very tough course and we formed a study group. We were often stumped as a team. "Luckily," my brother (now a tenured Physics professor at an Ivy League University) has a genius level IQ and I would call him and he would give us the solutions. There is no substitute for genius and no collection of non-geniuses (even fairly bright ones) can perform on the same level. Shakespeare was a genius as we can infer from the quality of his work. His genius stands alone. Just sayin'

@meidraw1044 Жыл бұрын

Her performance is amazing. “So young and true” lovely.

@indiciaobscure 3 жыл бұрын

I can't help thinking about Henry VIII and his daughter Mary. Cordelia is often associated with Elizabeth (as in Spencer's the fairy queen) because in the original 'happy endings' of this play (which were believed to be history) she returns and rules alone. But this scene is so Mary. She refused to accept him as head of the church and divorced to her mother, because it simply wasn't true. She could not lie and in her view risk her immortal soul. So he refused to see her and separated from her mother. She went from his beloved daughter to an ungrateful nuisance. She didn't flatter his ego, so he punished her, banishing her from his sight, even though I'm sure she still honored him and loved him dearly. She finally broke down and accepted him as head of the church and herself as a bastard after both her mother and Queen Anne were dead, but needed to be coaxed by the Imperial diplomat Chapuys and promised the pope's forgiveness.

@michaelhurst582 Жыл бұрын

Stilted. Why put him up on a silly box? Couldn't relate. Pity.

@inlonging

We need to be careful because there are a lot of internet myths about paganism (including All Saints Day, Easter, and Christmas!) that just aren’t true. We need to be wise as serpents and not be led astray, for sure.