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honestly albany is a noodle even when he finally gets his shit together
The joys of required readings. Something about this piece of Shakespeare's work just did not sit with me or resonate as much as his other works. I truly enjoyed Macbeth, or even Romeo and Juliet more than this. Perhaps I need to try one of his comedies instead of all his tragedies.
I am a man
More sinn’d against than sinning.
^ Lear is pathetic and wrong! His need for power (even when he's voluntarily given it up) is a trait that he's surely handed down to his daughters, which is why most of this happens in the first place. I adore the writing here, and the contrasting narrative with Edmund's betrayal enriches the themes greatly!
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
هملت رو بيشتر دوست داشتم و فكر ميكنم به خاطر ترجمه ى بهتر بود.
(قرض از بوكتاب تهران)
(قرض از بوكتاب تهران)
Se mi segui su Twitter dal 2007 e hai un’ottima memoria forse ricorderai che, quando i tweet si scrivevano in terza persona, a ogni piè sospinto scrivevo “invoca la fine del mondo durante una tempesta”. Questa uscita drammatica deriva da una scena di King Lear che mi è stata proposta in fotocopia in terza liceo.
Ci sono voluti più di dieci anni, con altre opere di Shakespeare in mezzo, prima che ritrovassi la scena originale in tutta la sua integrità (e quindi non più il re che sbraita agitando il pugno contro il cielo mentre il servo, che in realtà è il Matto, che gli dice: ma magari rientriamo, ché ora piove): è dall’atto terzo, scena seconda.
Ci sono voluti più di dieci anni, con altre opere di Shakespeare in mezzo, prima che ritrovassi la scena originale in tutta la sua integrità (e quindi non più il re che sbraita agitando il pugno contro il cielo mentre il servo, che in realtà è il Matto, che gli dice: ma magari rientriamo, ché ora piove): è dall’atto terzo, scena seconda.
Storm still. Enter Lear and Fool.Al contrario dei fulmini e delle saette che mi hanno portato a leggerlo, quello che mi resta di questa tragedia sono i momenti di quiete.
LEAR.
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow!
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
Till you have drench’d our steeples, drown’d the cocks!
You sulph’rous and thought-executing fires,
Vaunt-couriers of oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,
Strike flat the thick rotundity o’ th’ world!
Crack nature’s moulds, all germains spill at once
That makes ingrateful man!
FOOL.
O nuncle, court holy-water in a dry house is better than this rain-water out o’ door. Good nuncle, in, ask thy daughters blessing. Here’s a night pities neither wise men nor fools.
You must bear with me.
Pray you now, forget and forgive.
I am old and foolish.
Family soap opera for literary nerds, with enough death and betrayal to fill a CW season. There are torture scenes, off-stage murders, chaotic weather events, an excessive amount of babbling monologues, and even a war (that we don't get to see, did Shakespeare not have enough of a budget?). Through the chaos and tragedy, there are poignant human themes of family, madness, morality, death and class consciousness.
Can't wait to really get into it in class. Classic Shakespeare.
Can't wait to really get into it in class. Classic Shakespeare.
adventurous
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Una de las mejores obras de Shakespeare. Genial sobre el papel y dando un montón de juego a la hora de escenificarla.
Aunque tiene contrapuntos cómicos una gran parte son como los del Quijote, de los que hablan de la locura y te rompen por dentro un poquito.
“Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.”
Aunque tiene contrapuntos cómicos una gran parte son como los del Quijote, de los que hablan de la locura y te rompen por dentro un poquito.
“Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.”