Shakespeare scholar Stephen Booth called the conclusion of King Lear the “most terrifying five minutes of literature.” Below, the final scene of the play, from the 1983 television production starring Sir Laurence Olivier with Robert Lindsay as Edmund, David Threlfall as Edgar, Colin Blakely as Kent and Anna Calder-Marshall as Cordelia. I wrote about the [...]
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:27AM on July 15, 2011