Painting of Olivier as Lear By Chuck Rose at strugglingtopaint.blogspot.com “Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.” (Edgar) At the end of King Lear Edgar asks the audience to “speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.” This is a ...
King Lear gives us a grim story through startling poetry. But it tells us neither how we must feel about it or how we must think about it. If anything, its closing moments of quiet hysteria deny just that power to the play itself. Edgar ...
