Off we go! Claire Curtis-Ward, Levi Morger, Sam Gibbs and Ariana Karp delve into Act I of Shakespeare's nihilistic masterpiece!
This week we discuss:
- The family dynamic of Gloucester, Edmund & Edgar
- Are the knights riotous? Whose report of them do we trust?
- Difference between Goneril and Regan?
- Kent and the 'perfect' disguise
- The tenuousness of identity
- Dementia and Senility and their role from the beginning of the play
- The repetition of the word "nothing" within the 1st act!
- The complicated switch of the child becoming the parent and the tensions within the father/daughter relationship
Laurence Olivier as Lear in the opening scene of the play