LEAR WINDOW

From: The Village Voice | Date: March 7, 2007| Author: Feingold, Michael | Copyright information

Lincoln Center, La MaMa, Classical Theatre of Harlem, and now the Public Theater New York is about to take its fourth trip in three years through Shakespeare's King Lear, the giant, jagged, violent tragedy of power and madness that towers over the landscape of dramatic literature, luring actors to scale its daunting heroic heights. Except for the period of King George III's dementia, when it was banned in Bntain, King Lear has always been a forceful presence on the English-speaking stage, and...

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