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** Might Cordelia's response to her father's love test be a way of protesting against her pending ArrangedMarriage to either the Duke of Burgundy or the King of France? She points out to Lear that when she marries, she can't possibly love her father above everyone else, but will owe just as much love to her husband. Since Lear obviously wants to be the center of his daughters' universe, could it be that Cordelia hopes her speech will make him send her suitors away and let her stay single?
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** Kent, despite being banished and humiliated, still returned in disguise to serve his [[HoYay beloved Lear]] and never gave up on the mad king, even at his lowest
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** Kent, despite being banished and humiliated, still returned in disguise to serve his [[HoYay beloved Lear]] and never gave up on the mad king, even at his lowestlowest. It could be argued he suffered more than Lear himself, especially as at the end his devotion was for nothing and Lear died. And then it's implied Kent buggers off to kill himself. Bury your gays, I guess.
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** Kent, despite being banished and humiliated, still returned in disguise to serve his [[HoYay beloved Lear]] and never gave up on the mad king, even at his lowest
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** Despite being completely inaccurate as to what happened in history, the original tragic ending is well-beloved because it depicted the French losing combined with a dash of TrueArtIsAngsty, to the extent that the 1681 rewrite by Nahum Tate which is more accurate got revised back to the original tragic ending after a century. If this was made today, the ending would've been more divisive and got called out for inaccuracy by historians.
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** Despite being completely inaccurate as to what happened in history, the original tragic ending is well-beloved because it it's darker and depicted the French losing combined with a dash of TrueArtIsAngsty, losing, to the extent that the 1681 rewrite by Nahum Tate which is more accurate got revised back to the original tragic ending after a century. If this was made today, the ending would've been more divisive and got called out for inaccuracy by historians.
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** Despite being completely inaccurate as to what happened in history, the original tragic ending is well-beloved because it depicted the French losing combined with a dash of TrueArtIsAngsty, to the extent that the 1681 rewrite by Nahum Tate which is more accurate got revised back to the original tragic ending after a century. If this was made today, the ending would've been more divisive and got called out for inaccuracy by historians.
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** The First Servant who eventually turns on and kills Cornwall is something of a MemeticBadass and is often hailed as one of the most heroic characters of the play. In short, they're frankly astoundingly popular for a character with no actual name and only 8 lines.
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** The First Servant who eventually turns on and kills Cornwall is something of a MemeticBadass and is often hailed as one of the most heroic characters of the play. In short, they're frankly astoundingly popular for a character with no actual name and only 8 lines. Creator/CSLewis outright called their scene to the most important in all the play.
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Performances can be subjective, and most of them would qualify as Have A Gay Old Time
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** Albany's ShutUpHannibal to Goneril - "shut your mouth, dame" - needs a very talented actor to make it not sound hilarious.
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** Oswald's last words? "Slave, thou hast slain me". Well yeah.
** Goneril has a line that begins with "holla, holla". It's an old way of calling attention to things, but modern readers are left wondering why Lear's eldest daughter is talking like a SassyBlackWoman.
** Gloucester calling Regan "naughty" brings to mind a mischievous child, not the cruel and violent woman he is referring to.
** Goneril has a line that begins with "holla, holla". It's an old way of calling attention to things, but modern readers are left wondering why Lear's eldest daughter is talking like a SassyBlackWoman.
** Gloucester calling Regan "naughty" brings to mind a mischievous child, not the cruel and violent woman he is referring to.
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** One of Kent's (many) digs at Oswald is calling him a "base football player", mocking his lower class status. Even the most talented actors have to work ''very'' hard to get over how hilariously bizarre it sounds to modern ears to be hurling that as an insult.
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** One of Kent's (many) digs at Oswald is calling him a "base football player". Even the most talented actors have to work ''very'' hard to get over how hilariously bizarre it sounds to modern ears to be hurling that as an insult.
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** One of Kent's (many) digs at Oswald is calling him a "base football player".player", mocking his lower class status. Even the most talented actors have to work ''very'' hard to get over how hilariously bizarre it sounds to modern ears to be hurling that as an insult.
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* SpiritualLicensee: The Manga Shakespeare adaptation of King Lear is the best graphic novel adaptation of ''Literature/TheLeatherstockingTales'' you will ever see.
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* SpiritualLicensee: The Manga Shakespeare adaptation of King Lear gives a SettingUpdate to Colonial Americas, and so is the best graphic novel adaptation of ''Literature/TheLeatherstockingTales'' you will ever see.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: Edmund already was one, but the filmed adaptation of the play with Simon Russell Beale as Lear has Edmund die without repenting for his misdeeds.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: Edmund already was one, but the filmed adaptation of the play with Simon Russell Beale as Lear has Edmund die without repenting for his misdeeds.
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** Some have suggested that Lear was married and widowed twice, but loved the second wife more than the first, and that Goneril and Regan are children from his first marriage while Cordelia is the daughter of TheLostLenore. A lot of productions will give the elder two the same hair colour to highlight this idea. Ian [=McKellen=] chose to wear two wedding rings when he played Lear, also claiming that he felt Cordelia's mother died in childbirth - and that she is now the same age as her mother was when she died. This adds [[IncestSubtext a new layer to his love for Cordelia]]. ''Series/ShakespeareUnwrapped'' - featuring a twenty-something as Lear - played the reunion scene between them this way.
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** Some have suggested that Lear was married and widowed twice, but loved the second wife more than the first, and that Goneril and Regan are children from his first marriage while Cordelia is the daughter of TheLostLenore. A lot of productions will give the elder two the same hair colour colour, or cast them as [[PracticallyDifferentGenerations decades older]] than Cordelia, to highlight this idea. Ian [=McKellen=] chose to wear two wedding rings when he played Lear, also claiming that he felt Cordelia's mother died in childbirth - and that she is now the same age as her mother was when she died. This adds [[IncestSubtext a new layer to his love for Cordelia]]. ''Series/ShakespeareUnwrapped'' - featuring a twenty-something as Lear - played the reunion scene between them this way.
