The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 13.2367  Tuesday, 03 December 2002

[1]     From:   Sherri Fillingham <
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        Date:   Monday, 2 Dec 2002 11:52:58 EST
        Subj:   Re: SHK 13.2362 Re: Edgar and Edmund

[2]     From:   Claude Caspar <
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        Date:   Monday, 2 Dec 2002 12:36:34 -0500
        Subj:   Re: SHK 13.2362 Re: Edgar and Edmund

[3]     From:   Carol Barton <
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        Date:   Monday, 2 Dec 2002 20:00:07 -0500
        Subj:   Re: SHK 13.2362 Re: Edgar and Edmund


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From:           Sherri Fillingham <
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Date:           Monday, 2 Dec 2002 11:52:58 EST
Subject: 13.2362 Re: Edgar and Edmund
Comment:        Re: SHK 13.2362 Re: Edgar and Edmund

Tony Burton got near what I had been thinking, so I quote him here:

>When Cordelia asserts what we may loosely call her personal
>integrity (trying to include both Barton and Taft in my tent),
>she comes close to the Lutheran "Here I stand"  "I can do no
>other" assertion of individual

I was fortunate enough to see King Lear at the Stratford Festival this
past summer/fall.  This was a production starring Christopher Plummer
and directed by Jonathan Miller and was incredible on any number of
levels.

But I especially loved how he portrayed that original scene with the
daughters