The Wheel Is Come Full Circle: A Production History of King Lear at the Public Theater Part I: 1962 & 1973
This fall from October 18 - November 20, 2011, the Public Theater will be presenting a new production of what many consider Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy, regal, emotionally powerful, complex, gory and notoriously difficult to pull off: King Lear. I will take this occasion to examine the production history of King Lear at The Public Theater (originally called The New York Shakespeare Festival.) They&rsquo…