"I thought the king had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall."
Work was busy--the summer travel season is in full swing!--and that's about as far as I got with "King Lear."
I'm exaggerating. I didn't quite finish scene one, but maybe "King Lear" wasn't the best choice of book to take to work. I love Shakespeare, but his language takes getting used to. The last Shakespeare play I read was "The Tempest," and it wasn't until the second act that I was able to (largely) abandon the footnotes, and that'll likely be the case with "King Lear." I winced at some of Lear's actions and Kent's implication that Lear's insane. And I snickered at some of the sexual references ("Do you smell a fault?").
Unlike most of Shakespeare's work, "King Lear" is one I know almost nothing about. I knew he wanted to divide his kingdom among his daughters, but that's pretty much it. So it'll be interesting to see how things turn out. And this being a tragedy, it won't end well, I'm sure.
Work was busy--the summer travel season is in full swing!--and that's about as far as I got with "King Lear."
I'm exaggerating. I didn't quite finish scene one, but maybe "King Lear" wasn't the best choice of book to take to work. I love Shakespeare, but his language takes getting used to. The last Shakespeare play I read was "The Tempest," and it wasn't until the second act that I was able to (largely) abandon the footnotes, and that'll likely be the case with "King Lear." I winced at some of Lear's actions and Kent's implication that Lear's insane. And I snickered at some of the sexual references ("Do you smell a fault?").
Unlike most of Shakespeare's work, "King Lear" is one I know almost nothing about. I knew he wanted to divide his kingdom among his daughters, but that's pretty much it. So it'll be interesting to see how things turn out. And this being a tragedy, it won't end well, I'm sure.
I have to take one of these years to plow through Shakespeare and Marlowe. I've read pathetically little of them.