King Lear Second Edition

by Leggatt, Alexander

• ISBN13: 9780719062247
• ISBN10: 0719062241
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-02
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

This updated and expanded analysis ofKing Learin performance includes new chapters on the television version of the Royal National Theatre production directed by Richard Eyre and starring Ian Holm; and on Akira Kurosawa'sRan. Earlier chapters provide close, detailed analyses of the stage, film and television interpretations of John Gielgud, Harley Granville Barker, Paul Scofield, Peter Brook, Peter Ustinov, Michael Gambon, Adrian Noble, Grigori Kozintsev, Michael Hordern, Jonathan Miller, Laurence Olivier and Michael Elliott. By examining such issues as the playing ofLear, the staging of the storm and the battle, and the choice of historical period, this book shows how interpretation and performance are bound together, and how the play is transformed through different historical and political contexts.

Author Biography

Alexander Leggatt is Professor of English at University College, University of Toronto.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vi
Series editors' preface	vii
Prefatory note	viii
I Problems and choices	1	(23)
II John Gielgud and Harley Granville Barker	24	(17)
III Peter Brook and Paul Scofield	41	(21)
IV Robin Phillips and Peter Ustinov	62	(15)
V Adrian Noble, Michael Gambon and Antony Sher	77	(11)
VI Grigori Kozintsev	88	(17)
VII Peter Brook	105	(13)
VIII Jonathan Miller and Michael Hordern	118	(14)
IX Laurence Olivier	132	(12)
X Ian Holm and Richard Eyre	144	(25)
XI Cross-cultural dialogue; Akira Kurosawa's Ran	169	(31)
XII Conclusion	200	(3)
Appendix	203	(4)
Bibliography	207	(6)
Index	213