уильям шекспир - King Lear

57. Billington, Guardian , 30 June 1982.

58. Charles Marowitz, “Lear Log,” Tulane Drama Review , Vol. 8, No. 2 (Winter 1963), pp. 103–21.

59. Redgrave, King Lear .

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PICTURE CREDITS

Preparation of “King Lear in Performance” was assisted by a generous grant from the CAPITAL Centre (Creativity and Performance in Teaching and Learning) of the University of Warwick for research in the RSC archive at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded a term’s research leave that enabled Jonathan Bate to work on “The Director’s Cut.”

Picture research by Helen Robson, Jan Sewell, and Kevin Wright. Grateful acknowledgment is made to the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust for assistance with picture research (special thanks to Helen Hargest) and reproduction fees.

Images of RSC productions are supplied by the Shakespeare Centre Library and Archive, Stratford-upon-Avon. This library, maintained by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, holds the most important collection of Shakespeare material in the UK, including the Royal Shakespeare Company’s official archive. It is open to the public free of charge.

For more information see www.shakespeare.org.uk.

1. Robert Armin © Bardbiz Limited

2. Mr. Macready (1838). Reproduced by permission of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

3. Directed by Theodore Komisarjevsky (1936). Reproduced by permission of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

4. Directed by John Gielgud and Anthony Quayle (1950). Angus McBean © Royal Shakespeare Company

5. Directed by Peter Brook (1962). Angus McBean © Royal Shakespeare Company

6. Directed by Trevor Nunn (2007). Manuel Harlan © Royal Shakespeare Company

7. Directed by Deborah Warner (1990). © Donald Cooper/Photostage

8. Directed by Adrian Noble (1993). © John Bunting

9. Directed by Adrian Noble (1982). Joe Cocks © Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

10. Reconstructed Elizabethan playhouse © Charcoalblue

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Act 1 Scene 1

1.1 Location: the royal court, Britain

1 affectedfavored

5 qualities … moietytheir qualities are so evenly balanced that the most careful scrutiny cannot distinguish between either man’s share

8 breedingupbringing (plays on the sense of “conception”) charge cost (plays on the sense of “accusation, blame”)

9 brazedmade brazen, hardened

10 conceiveunderstand (Gloucester then plays on sense of “become pregnant”)

13 erebefore

14 faulttransgression/loss of scent during a hunt/vagina

15 undoneplays on the sense of “not copulated with” issue outcome/child

16 properhandsome/worthy/rightful

17 by … lawlegitimate

17 someyear about a year

18 dearermore beloved (plays on the sense of “more expensive”)

18 accountestimation (plays on the financial sense)

21 whoresoni.e. bastard (here used affectionately)

27 sueentreat, seek

28 deservingto be worthy of (your esteem)

29 outaway (perhaps abroad or in the house of another nobleman; it was common for a nobleman’s son to be educated in the house of another important family)

1.1 Sennet trumpet call signaling a procession

1.1 bearing a coronet carrying a small crown denoting inferior rank/wearing a wreath or garland about the head (must be of material that can be broken in half)

31 Attendwait on, look after

34 darkersecret (with sinister connotations)

36 fast intentfirm intention

37 businessofficial duties/exertion/anxiety

39 soni.e. son-in-law (like Albany)

41 constant willunshakable intention

41 publishproclaim, make public

42 several dowersindividual dowries

42 thatso that

45 sojournstay

48 Interestpossession

50 bountygenerosity/gift

51 nature … challengenatural affection, combined with merit, makes a claim

53 wieldexpress

56 gracevirtue

58 makes breath poormakes words insufficient/renders one breathless (in the attempt to express it)

58 unableinadequate

59 all … muchi.e. all possible expressions of the amount of love

61 boundsterritories

62 shadowyshady

62 champaigns richedrich open countryside

63 wide-skirted meadsextensive meadows

67 self-mettlesame temperament/same substance (“metal”)

68 prize … worthvalue myself in equal terms

69 deedaction, performance/bond, legal document