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Seeing Storms And Madness

Seeing Storms and Madness

It has been said that King Lear is one of Shakespeare's most intricate plays. It has also been said that Shakespeare's plays are meant to be performed, not read. In 1983, Michael Elliott directed the play “King Lear,” for television, utilizing a kind of Stonehenge setting. This production featured Laurence Olivier as Lear, David Threlfall as Edgar, Dorothy Tutin as Goneril, Diana Rigg as Regan, and Anna Calder-Marshall as Cordelia. King Lear may be Shakespeare's greatest play and very likely the greatest work in all of literature, and its themes are of the most profound nature: redemption, self-realization, parable of universal justice, and the fortuitousness in the battle between good and evil. Consequently, we find that this is about a man, King Lear, who fights an epic and magnificent struggle against overwhelming physical and emotional turmoil and whose implacable refusal to surrender make him one of the greatest, most towering and passionate......


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