Shakespeare For All

King Lear Part 3: The Language


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In Part 3, Professor Palfrey offers close-readings of some of the play’s most significant scenes. You’ll witness the king and the beggar in the heart of a storm; the naked man and the blind man on the edge of a cliff; and the father and daughter on the cusp between life and death; and you’ll learn how Shakespeare takes us into strange, impossible new places via the words and bodies of his actors.

Speeches and Performers

  • Lear and Edgar, 3.4, “Poor naked wretches …” (Michael Bertenshaw)
  • Edgar and Gloucester, 4.6, “Come on, sir …” (Kelly Hunter, MBE)
  • Lear, Edgar, and Kent, 5.3, “And my poor fool is hanged …” (Michael Bertenshaw)
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    Shakespeare For AllBy Maria Devlin McNair

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