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Four hundred and twenty characters to describe the play are hardly enough (with a hundred gone now), and the greater parts this time around are the spaces where action happens off-stage: six or seven main characters' deaths are reported, not staged; a brewing war between Cornwall and Albany that never happens; and all the naughty talk about nothing and bastardy, yet each of the females (and only three) are childless.
— Mar 13, 2014 11:17PM
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Far from being a singular vision of what the great tragedy is, this introductions dwells on the many uttered nothings written into the play, and then subtracts the omissions in 18th and 19th century editions, followed by a division of what remains into two versions: First Quarto and Folio. To say King Lear is one thing seems to miss the point, and the best summary of all its chaos is Kurosawa's Ran.
— Mar 12, 2014 11:00PM
