Topical Guide 134
Mark Dorset
Literature, Drama, Theater: King Lear
“Well, each year the fourth grade puts on a production of King Lear, and this year I’m in charge. I thought that you might like to be the director,” she began.
From the frozen smile on my face Mrs. Graham reasoned that I didn’t know what on earth she was talking about.
“It’s a play,” she said.Little Follies, “The Girl with the White Fur Muff”
The entire text of the play is available online, handsomely formatted, at the website of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Here’s a screenshot, with the play in a nutshell:
And here’s the entire play, as performed at the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1974, with James Earl Jones as Lear:
[more to come on Thursday, November 18, 2021]
You can begin reading at the beginning or you can catch up by visiting the archive or consulting the index to the Topical Guide.
You can listen to the episodes on the Personal History podcast. Begin at the beginning or scroll through the episodes to find what you’ve missed.
At Apple Books you can download free eBooks of “My Mother Takes a Tumble,” “Do Clams Bite?,” “Life on the Bolotomy,” “The Static of the Spheres,” and “The Fox and the Clam,” the first five novellas in Little Follies.
You’ll find an overview of the entire work in An Introduction to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy. It’s a pdf document.