Tabling: The Podcast

Tabling: King Lear Act I


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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

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