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Actor and director Alan Stanford on directing King Lear. Balancing the Lear and Gloucester stories

Three Favourite Quotes. Gloucester - ‘ O my follies! Then Edgar was abused. Kind gods, forgive me that, and prosper him. - Act 3 Scene 7 - Regan’s use of animal imagery in Act 3 Scene 7 - In his anointed flesh stick boarish fangs. Goneril in Act 5 Scene 1 I'd rather lose this battle than allow that sister of mine to come between me and Edmund.

The blinding of Gloucester. Cornwall and Regan ‘soul mates in cruelty’

The character of Cordelia, quiet, economical, determined in 118 lines of visual language (Cog sheet! How to answer a typical exam question interrogated and analysed by introduction, body of answer and conclusion. )

Cog sheet! How to answer a typical exam question interrogated and analysed by introduction, body of answer and conclusion.

Scene Study Act 4 Scene 7 - Lear, Cordelia and The Doctor.

The Main Plot, the Sub Plot and the Parallel Plot in King Lear - Introduction, expansion, conclusion. Cog sheet! How to answer a typical exam question interrogated and analysed by introduction, body of answer and conclusion

Cog sheet! How to answer a typical exam question interrogated and analysed by introduction, body of answer and conclusion.

Two Favourite Quotes - Lear in Act 1 Scene 1 - "Which of you shall we say doth love us most." Cordleia in Act 1 Scene 1 - "Which of you shall we say doth love us most." The literary flaw in “shall we say”