LEAR Dost thou call me a fool, boy FOOL All thy other titles thou hast given away that thou wast born with.
LEAR Dost thou call me a fool, boy FOOL All thy other titles thou hast given away that thou wast born with.
We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense.
You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop.
As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.
The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.
I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.
I've played Lear three times, I would love to do it again.
King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of view of construction, to regard the hero as the leading figure.
Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call.
Gloucester O Let me kiss that hand. Lear Let me wipe it first, it smells of mortality.
How pleasant to know Mr. Lear Who has written such volumes of stuff Some think him ill-tempered and queer, But a few think him pleasant enough.
KING LEAR Doth any here know me This is not Lear Doth Lear walk thus speak thus Where are his eyes .... Who is it that can tell me who I am.
I think you have to find the humanity in the character and then the deterioration is a part of the process - the journey of the character. It's like playing King Lear. You can start off as a nice old man who finishes up crazy.
All perform their tragic play, There struts Hamlet, there is Lear.
Heaven blazing into the head Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at once Upon a hundred thousand stages It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce.
The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.
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